e-branch
Login
My List - 0
Help
Home
My Account/Renew Loans
Community Info
KidSearch
New Catalogue!
Search
Advanced
By Format
By Number
My Searches
Can't Find it?
Find Magazine Articles & more
Problems?
Search:
Title Starts with...
Title Keyword(s)
Author/Performer/Name (Last,First)
Author/Performer/Name Keyword(s)
Subject Starts with...
Subject Keyword(s)
Series Starts with...
Series Keyword(s)
Anyword/Anywhere
List Name Keyword(s)
Refine Search
> You're searching:
Halifax Public Libraries
Item Information
Copy / Holding Information
More Content
More by this author
Saunders, Bernie.
Subjects
Saunders, Bernie.
Hockey players -- Canada -- Biography.
Black Canadian hockey players -- Biography.
Browse Catalog
by author:
Saunders, Bernie.
by title:
Shut out : the game ...
by call number:
796.962092 S257s
Search the Web
Saunders, Bernie.
Saunders, Bernie.
Hockey players -- Canada -- Biography.
Black Canadian hockey players -- Biography.
MARC Display
Shut
out
: the
game
that
did
not
love
me
black
/ Bernie Saunders and Barry Meisel.
by
Saunders, Bernie.
Patrick Crean Editions, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 2021.
Call #:
796.962092 S257s
Subjects
Saunders, Bernie.
Hockey players -- Canada -- Biography.
Black
Canadian hockey players -- Biography.
ISBN:
9781443465243 (hc.)
Description:
352 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:
"'
Shut
out
' is a hockey
love
story. But it was a
love
that was unrequited. Born in Montreal, Bernie Saunders had a passion for playing hockey in his boyhood, teens and into his twenties. And yet, stymied at every turn, he faced a malevolence that had nothing to do with his prodigious talent, which he showed at every level. Instead he heard only taunts from opponents, spectators, coaches, and even his own teammates. The problem was that he was
Black
. He continued to play nonetheless, adopting a style akin to the historic house slave, meant to serve but remain invisible. He was drafted by the Quebec Nordiques and played for them for two years, but spent most his years in the Junior leagues in Canada and the USA. This is a memoir about being
Black
while playing professional hockey, by someone who was not a star, but who had the potential to become one, and who was blocked at almost every turn simply because of the colour of his skin. Woven throughout his memoir is his
love
of family and especially for his brother John, also a hockey player and broadcaster, who tragically died too young, In the end, it was all too much for Bernie. Dogged and overwhelmed by racism, he finally quit hockey for a successful career in the corporate sector. Woven throughout his story is Bernie's
love
of family, especially his brother, John, also a hockey player and an Emmy-nominated ESPN broadcaster, who tragically died too young. '
Shut
out
' is a hopeful and uplifting book about facing adversity, overcoming it and moving ahead."--Jacket.
Genre:
Autobiographies.
Other authors:
Meisel, Barry.
Holds:
0
Copy/Holding information
Location
Collection
Call No.
Item type
Status
Bedford Public Library
Adult Black Nonfiction
796.962092 S257s
Adult books
Checked in
Add Copy to MyList
Central Library
Adult Black Nonfiction
796.962092 S257s
Adult books
Checked in
Add Copy to MyList
Cole Harbour Public Library
Adult Black Nonfiction
796.962092 S257s
Adult books
Checked in
Add Copy to MyList
Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.