Raincoast Books
Available: 10/24/05
5.56 x 8.26 · 320 pages
978-1-55192-849-4
CDN $17.95 · pb

Ages 10 and up

Canadian Title

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Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader Shoots and Scores

Uncle John’s Canada Team

Full of high-scoring facts and hard-hitting trivia, Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader Shoots and Scores offers a cross-checking cross-section of hockey’s history, mythology, hagiography, psychology and pathology.

Read about the origins of the “Coolest Game on Earth”; the greatest teams in hockey history; the lives of Lord Stanley, Conn Smythe, Lester Patrick and other founding fathers of hockey; “Hockey Night in Hollywood,” the best (and worst) hockey movies of all-time; the “Incredible Exploding Zamboni” (and those who lived to tell the tale); a rap sheet of hockey arrests (Derek Sanderson, Marty McSorley, Todd Bertuzzi); goalies’ superstitions (Patrick Roy’s conversations with goal posts; Glenn Hall’s pre-game gastric cleansing); the tragic deaths of Bill Barilko, Pelle Lindbergh and Tim Horton; “The Flying Fathers,” a barnstorming team of hockey-playing priests; Peanuts creator Charles Schulz’s many contributions to the game; quotable quotes from Don Cherry, Eddie Shack, Tiger Williams; and much, much more.

The Bathroom Readers’ Hysterical Society, following proudly in the grand tradition of its older sibling, the Bathroom Readers’ Institute, is a conglomeration of scholarly scribes devoted to bringing primo prose, terrific trivia and quality quizzes and puzzles to its readers.