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Bidini, Dave.
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Keon, Dave.
Bidini, Dave -- Childhood and youth.
Toronto Maple Leafs (Hockey team) -- History.
Hockey players -- Canada -- Biography.
Rock musicians -- Canada -- Biography
Guitarists -- Canada -- Biography.
Bullying in schools -- Biography.
Toronto (Ont.) -- Biography.
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Bidini, Dave.
Keon, Dave.
Bidini, Dave -- Childhood and youth.
Toronto Maple Leafs (Hockey team) -- History.
Hockey players -- Canada -- Biography.
Rock musicians -- Canada -- Biography
Guitarists -- Canada -- Biography.
Bullying in schools -- Biography.
Toronto (Ont.) -- Biography.
MARC Display
Keon
and
me
:
my
search
for the
lost
soul
of the
Leafs
/ Dave Bidini.
by
Bidini, Dave.
Penguin Group, 2013.
Call #:
796.962092 K37b
Subjects
Keon
, Dave.
Bidini, Dave -- Childhood and youth.
Toronto Maple
Leafs
(Hockey team) -- History.
Hockey players -- Canada -- Biography.
Rock musicians -- Canada -- Biography
Guitarists -- Canada -- Biography.
Bullying in schools -- Biography.
Toronto (Ont.) -- Biography.
ISBN:
9780670066476 (hc.)
0670066478 (hc.)
Description:
295 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Notes:
"Viking."
Summary:
"Hockey is the lens through which we see our lives--how we measure right and wrong, how we understand our hopes and fears. So it was for Dave Bidini in 1974, the last year Dave
Keon
played in Toronto. In a new grade in a new school, Bidini found himself the victim of a bully--a depredation he could understand only by thinking about what the
Leafs
dauntless captain went through game after game. Throughout his twenty-two-year career,
Keon
was only in one hockey fight, in his last game as a Leaf on April 22, 1974. It was on this day that the eleven-year-old Bidini decided to fight back, an occasion that the writer looks back on with breathtaking courage and honesty. But while Bidini would remain a blue-blooded
Leafs
fan into adulthood,
Keon
became estranged from the franchise with which he'd won four Stanley Cups, two Lady Byngs, and the first ever Conn Smythe Trophy in 1967. Told in two narratives--one from the point of view of the young Bidini growing up in Toronto in the early 70s and one from the perspective of the man looking for his absent hero--Keon and
Me
tells not only the story of a hockey icon who has haunted Toronto for decades, but of a life lived in parallel to
Keon
's. It’s the story of cultural change, an account of the tribulations of the NHL's most beloved (and most despised) franchise in the decades since
Keon
left under a cloud, and most of all, it is a story of growing up, with all the wisdom and sadness that imparts. Part ode to a legendary hockey player, part memoir,
Keon
and
Me
captures what we all cherish in the game we love and the importance of the innocence we cling to long after the cheers have faded. Dave Bidini is a founding member of the rock band Rheostatics. He currently performs with his band, BidiniBand.."--Provided by publisher.
Genre:
Memoirs.
Holds:
1
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