by George Grimm | Feb 8, 2018 | Books, Hockey History, Homepage, Retro Rangers
Uniform numbers have long been an important part of sports lore and serve multiple purposes. First and foremost, they identify the players, but they also allow fans to identify with those players by wearing those numbers on their own jerseys. Many players have also...
by George Grimm | Nov 27, 2017 | Books, Homepage, Inside Hockey, NHL, Retro Rangers
In the hierarchy of sports franchises, a team’s general manager is the second most powerful person in the organization, right behind the owner, yet precious little has been written about the great GM’s in any sport, let alone hockey. That void has now been filled by...
by Kevin Greenstein | Oct 25, 2017 | Archived Features, Books, Homepage
Why does anyone care about hockey? Because it tells stories. There haven’t historically been any truly great hockey novels, though there are certainly plenty of terrific nonfiction books like Ken Dryden’s The Game that take fans deep inside the...
by George Grimm | Oct 18, 2017 | Books, Homepage, Retro Rangers
Gilles Gratton is a character, that fact has been well established in stories that have been passed down over the 40 years since his retirement in 1977. But now Gratton has produced an autobiography called Gratoony the Loony, co-written by veteran sportswriter Greg...
by Matthew Dibiase | Sep 8, 2017 | Books, Homepage
We Did Everything But Win is a brilliant debut work by George Grimm; an oral history of the New York Rangers during the Emile Francis era (1964 to 1976) as told by the players, coaches, Rangers staff members, radio and TV broadcasters, and print journalists who took...
by Anthony Garofalo | Dec 12, 2016 | Archived Features, Books, Boston Bruins, Homepage, Product Reviews
There are moments in our lives that define us. All of those moments, comprised of either positive or negative happenings, give us our own unique outlook on how we perceive our existence. When it comes to professional sports, there are moments that define the careers...
