Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Shoots and Scores: Updated & Expanded Edition

Uncle John's Facts and Trivia

by Bathroom Readers' Institute

Uncle John’s hard-hitting hockey book was such a success that we decided to send it back to the weight room to get beefed up for a new season. Now updated and expanded with 70 new pages, this collection of slap shots, penalty kills, and toothless grins offers hockey fans everything they love about this great its colorful history, legendary players, and enough trivia to satisfy even the most avid stat head. Read about…

The true origin of the “Coolest Game on Earth”
The greatest teams in hockey history
The best (and worst) hockey movies of all time
The incredible exploding Zamboni
A rap sheet of hockey arrests
Patrick Roy’s conversations with his goal posts

And much, much more!

Genres: Sports, Nonfiction, Hockey, Humor, Trivia

384 pages, Paperback

First published November 30, 2005

About the author

The Bathroom Reader's Institute UJBR boasts more than 12 million books in print and a membership base topping 40,000 loyal readers . . .

Reviews

[Pete Symenuk · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great book full of interesting sports stories.

[Scott · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5/5 if I could give a true rating.

This is my first exposure to a really subject-focused BR, and they did a great job. A lot of history I was not familiar with in the least, and good details to colour those stories for which I did have some familiarity. A lot of content in this book covering everything from hockey's incipience and the early days of the NHL to stats and records and larger than life biographies! Definitely recommend to fans of either the bathroom reader format, hockey, or trivia in general!

Still has several bizarre typos.

[Cassie · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was pretty interesting but the section on famous wives was real gross.

[Benjamin Kahn · Rating 3 out of 5]

Like all Bathroom Readers, a decent read, although there seemed to be a little more filter than usual. An article listing hockey players who married models and another listing what some players did after they retired served no useful purpose. Likewise, an article comparing hockey greats from the past with Gretzky by prorating their seasons, in a seeming effort to show how great Gretzky with was pretty boring. But there was some interesting information and amusing articles. This edition boasted an additional 70 pages, but if the pages contained some of the article that I just mentioned, I think they could have skipped the addition.