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  • Forgotten Heroes

    Winnipeg's Hockey Heritage

    by Richard Brignall ...
    Ladies and Gentlemen, lace up your skates. In these pages find the origins of Canadian hockey and the birth of internation hockey. This book is about hockey all over North America and is a tribute to our widely forgotten heroes, because remember, hockey began here, in Manitoba. From amateur sport to pros, we couldn't be prouder of our heritage. Richard Brignall has chronicled this incredible ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Summit Series '72

    Eight games that put Canada on top of world hockey

    by Richard Brignall ...
    Series series Lorimer Recordbooks
    It wasn't until Canadian teams started losing in international tournaments in the mid 1950s that an epic hockey rivalry between Canada and the Soviet Union began. Canadians believed hockey was"their game." So Canadians were in for a rude awakening when they lost Game One of the 1972 Summit Series to the Soviets. The eight-game tournament quickly became a "war on ice" fuelled bycompeting Cold War ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Champion for Health

    How Clara Hughes fought depression to win Olympic gold

    by Richard Brignall ...
    Series series Lorimer Recordbooks
    Clara Hughes has won multiple medals in both summer and winter Olympic Games. As a cyclist and speed skater, Clara pushed through pain to get to the finish line, trying to have her best race every day. Few knew that the same determination and focus were also needed to fight her own personal battles. Abusing drugs and alcohol from her early teens, Clara used sport to turn her life around in a few ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • China Clipper

    Pro football's first Chinese-Canadian player, Normie Kwong

    by Richard Brignall ...
    Series series Lorimer Recordbooks
    Normie Kwong's parents immigrated to Canada from China in the early 1900s. For them, and many other Asian immigrants, moving meant having to face both the government's anti-Asian policies and society's attitude of Chinese exclusion. But Normie overcame it all and, despite his small stature, in 1948 he became the youngest footballer ever to play in a Grey Cup game.Nicknamed the "China Clipper" as a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Real Justice: A Police Mr. Big Sting Goes Wrong

    The Story of Kyle Unger

    by Richard Brignall ...
    Series series Lorimer Real Justice
    On the night of June 23, 1990, teenage friends Kyle Unger and John Beckett made a last-minute decision to attend a music festival near Roseisle, Manitoba. They were loners, not the popular kids at school. But on this night they seemed to finally fit in. They had fun, played games, drank, and hung around bonfires with other people. The next morning, a sixteen-year-old girl was dead. By the next ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Big Train

    The Legendary Ironman of Sport, Lionel Conacher

    by Richard Brignall ...
    Series series Lorimer Recordbooks
    Lionel Conacher excelled at football, hockey, baseball, boxing, wrestling, and lacrosse. He taught himself how to play and he worked hard, and it paid off. He supported his struggling family, never giving up or letting people down. He was given the nickname Big Train because he was unstoppable on the football field when he ran through the opposition. In 1921 Conacher joined the Toronto Argonauts, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Fearless

    The Story of George Chuvalo, Canada's Greatest Boxer

    by Richard Brignall ...
    Series series Lorimer Recordbooks
    George Chuvalo only wanted one thing: to become a boxer. When Chuvalo stepped into the ring, he was fearless. In ninety-three professional fights between 1956 and 1979, boxing everyone from George Foreman to Muhammad Ali, he was never once knocked out. But this heavyweight boxing legend never had it easy. After losing many loved ones to drugs, Chuvalo has also become a role model out of the ring ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Big League Dreams

    Baseball Hall of Fame's first African-Canadian, Fergie Jenkins

    by Richard Brignall ...
    Series series Lorimer Recordbooks
    This is a history of black major league baseball players and the crumbling of the colour barrier in sport, and the story of how Fergie Jenkins rose to the top to become Canada's first inductee into the American Baseball Hall of Fame.Fergie Jenkins grew up in the era when Jackie Robinson became the first black man to play major league baseball, and Willie O'Ree became the first black NHL player. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Small Town Glory

    The story of the Kenora Thistles' remarkable quest for the Stanley Cup

    by John Danakas, Richard Brignall ...
    Series series Lorimer Recordbooks
    How did the Kenora Thistles become, against all odds, the smallest team and the smallest town ever to win the Stanley Cup?This famously scrappy hockey team was founded in the rough and tumble town of Kenora, Ontario, at the end of the 19th century. A decade later, playing far away from home, in Montreal, the fiery teenagers whom the Montreal Star dubbed "the fastest that have ever been seen ... Read more

    $12.99 USD