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Dave Bidini

Born

in Etobicoke, Canada

September 11, 1963

Website

http://www.davebidini.ca

Twitter

hockeyesque

Genre

Music, Sports, Humor and Comedy

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DAVE BIDINI is the author of nine books. His play, "The Five Hole Stories," was performed by One Yellow Rabbit and toured Canada in winter, 2009, and his two "hockumentaries," The Hockey Nomad and The Hockey Nomad Goes To Russia were Gemini-nominated films, and The Hockey Nomad won for Best Documentary.

Bidini is the recipient of numerous National Magazine Awards, and is a weekly columnist in The National Post. In 1994, his former band, Rheostatics, won a Genie Award for the song 'Claire' (from the film Whale Music), and two of their albums were included in the Top 20 Canadian Albums of All Time. His first hockey book, Tropic of Hockey, was named one of the Top 100 Canadian Books of All Time by McCllland and Stewart, and his baseball odyssey ...more

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Average rating: 3.77 · 1,721 ratings · 203 reviews · 20 distinct works • Similar authors

	On a Cold Road: Tales of Adventure in Canadian Rock 3.74 avg rating — 446 ratings — published 1998 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tropic of Hockey: My Search for the Game in Unlikely Places 3.84 avg rating — 265 ratings — published 2000 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Midnight Light: A Personal Journey to the North 3.82 avg rating — 182 ratings — published 2018 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Keon and Me: My Search For The Lost Soul Of The Leafs 3.95 avg rating — 130 ratings — published 2013 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Writing Gordon Lightfoot: The Man, the Music, and the World in 1972 3.34 avg rating — 136 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Best Game You Can Name 3.84 avg rating — 116 ratings — published 2005 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Around the World in 57 1/2 Gigs 3.97 avg rating — 78 ratings — published 2007 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Baseballissimo: My Summer in the Italian Minor Leagues 3.77 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 2004 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Home and Away: In Search of Dreams at the Homeless World Cup of Soccer 3.88 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 2010 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	For Those About to Write: How I Learned to Love Books and Why I Had to Write Them 3.36 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 2007	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“In Toronto, fans applaud; in Vancouver, they cheer; but in Calgary, they howl hair-raising, guttural paroxysms of zeal.”
― Dave Bidini, On a Cold Road: Tales of Adventure in Canadian Rock

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“Actually, the term "drove" is misleading when applied to travelling across the prairies; a better verb might be "pointed", which is all one has to do when moving in a straight line with about ten thousand feet between vehicles.”
― Dave Bidini, On a Cold Road: Tales of Adventure in Canadian Rock

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“Vancouver was like a long kiss from a ponytailed girl. I left a piece of myself there.

Everybody does the first time.”
― Dave Bidini, On a Cold Road: Tales of Adventure in Canadian Rock

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