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Hockey players, Black -- Canada -- Biography.
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O'Ree, Willie, 1935-
Hockey players, Black -- Canada -- Biography.
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Willie : the
game-changing
story
of the
NHL
's
first
black
player
/ Willie O'Ree with Michael McKinley.
by
O'Ree, Willie, 1935-
Viking Canada, 2020.
Call #:
796.962092 O66w
Subjects
O'Ree, Willie, 1935-
Hockey players,
Black
-- Canada -- Biography.
ISBN:
9780735239746 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Game-changing
story
of the
NHL
's
first
black
player
Description:
250 p. : col. ill.; 24 cm.
Notes:
Includes index.
Summary:
"An inspiring memoir that shows that anyone can achieve their dreams if they are willing to fight for them. In 1958, Willie O'Ree was a lot like any other
player
toiling in the minors. He was good. Good enough to have been signed by the Boston Bruins. Just not quite good enough to play in the
NHL
. Until January 18 of that year. O'Ree was finally called up, and when he stepped out onto the ice against the Montreal Canadians, not only did he fulfil the childhood dream he shared with so many other Canadian kids, he did something that had never been done before. He broke hockey'
s
colour barrier. Just as his hero, Jackie Robinson, had done for baseball. In that pioneering
first
NHL
game, O'Ree proved that no one could stop him from being a hockey
player
. But he soon learned that he could never be just a hockey
player
. He would always be a
black
player
, with all that entails. There were ugly name-calling and stick-swinging incidents, and nights when the Bruins had to be escorted to their bus by the police. But O'Ree never backed down. When he retired in 1979, he had played hundreds of games as a pro, and scored hundreds of goals, his boyhood dreams more than accomplished. In 2018, O'Ree was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in recognition not only of that legacy, but of the way he has built on it in the decades since. He has been, for twenty years now, an
NHL
Executive and has helped the
NHL
Diversity program expose more than 40,000 boys and girls of diverse backgrounds to unique hockey experiences. Inspiring, frank, and shot through with the kind of understated courage and decency required to change the world, Willie is a
story
for anyone willing to persevere for a dream."--Goodreads.
Genre:
Autobiographies.
Other authors:
McKinley, Michael, 1961-
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