Bobby orr new biography books

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Bobby Orr: My Game

July 26, 2016

A treasured tome first read in 1975, when I began playing organized hockey, and then endlessly retraversed across the latter half of that grungy decade of ugly leather jackets, lemon US automobiles, and bowl cuts. Bobby Orr was a demi-god to Canadian kids back then, a defenceman who changed the game through a combination of his ice sense, caginess in his own end, soft hands, and, most notably, smoothly meteoric skating style—cutting arcs, sweeping in sine waves, and looping in circles about his befuddled opponents, always in pursuit of controlling the tempo of play until he would, in his trademark burst of symphonic speed, streak into the opposing team's end-zone flush with the capacity either to score on his own or beautifully setup one of his anticipatingly buzzing forwards. Orr was the complete player, a solid rock in shielding his own net while yet possessed of an abundance of offensive firepower, to the degree that he twice won the Art Ros

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Bobby: My Story in Pictures – Signed Edition

One of the greatest sports figures of all time at last breaks his silence in a memoir as unique as the man himself. Number 4. It is just about the most common number in hockey, but invoke that number and you can only be talking about one player — the man often referred to as the greatest ever to play the game: Bobby Orr. In Bobby: My Story in Pictures, Bobby Orr shares photographs and stories from his personal collection.

But skill on the ice is only a part of his story. All of the trophies, records, and press clippings leave unsaid as much about the man as they reveal. They tell us what Orr did, but don’t tell us what inspired him, who taught him, or what he learned along the way. They don’t tell what it was like for a shy small-town kid to become one of the most celebrated athletes in the history of the game, all the while in the full glare of the media. They don’t tell us what it was like when the agent he regarded as h

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Orr: My Story

2013 autobiography by Bobby Orr

Orr: My Story is a 2013 autobiography written by former professional hockey player Bobby Orr,^[1] who played for the Boston Bruins and the Chicago Blackhawks in the National Hockey League from 1966 to 1978. Orr had multiple knee surgeries and injuries that ended his career. Orr was enshrined in the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1979 at age 31, the youngest to be inducted into the Hall at that time.^[2]^[3] Orr is also recognized for being one of the first major sports figures to use an agent. Unfortunately, at the end of his career Orr discovered that his agent, Alan Eagleson, had embezzled most of his money, leaving him deeply in debt.^[4]

On November 3, 2013, the book debuted at #8 on The New York Times Best Seller list for nonfiction.^[5]^[6]

Summary

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The book focuses on four major parts of Orr's life.

Early years. Bobby Orr was born on March 20, 1948, in Parry So