Wayne Gretzky

by Matt Doeden

Biography of hockey player Wayne Gretzky.

106 pages, Library Binding

First published September 1, 2007

About the author

Matt Doeden was born in southern Minnesota and lived parts of his childhood in Golden Valley, Minnesota, and Madison, Minnesota. He studied journalism at Mankato State University, where he worked at the college newspaper for three years. In his senior year, he served as the paper's Sports Editor, which put him in charge of the entire sports section, the sports writers, and the photographers. He covered mostly college sports, but also the Minnesota Vikings, who held training camp at MSU.

His work allowed him to meet and interview people like Dennis Green, Cris Carter, Robert Smith, and more. Matt went on to work as a sports writer for the Mankato paper, and then he got a job as an editor with a small children's publisher called Capstone Press, and in 2003 he decided to start his own business as a freelance writer and editor.

Since then, Matt has written and edited hundreds of books. Lots of them are on high-interest topics like cars, sports, and airplanes. He also writes and edits on geography, science, and even math.

Reviews

[Sebastian E. · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an awesome book on the best NHL (National Hockey League) player ever known, Wayne Gretzky. He was such an amazing player because he proved the critics wrong when they said he was going to fail because he was small for he's age and it's very to prove them wrong because they have experience on what the players will do. When he was in the NHL he broke more records then anyone in the NHL, like winning more MVP's then anyone in the NHL. One of my favorite things he did was score 50 goals in less then 50 games, which is very hard to do considering the fact that everybody in the NHL has been practicing since a young age. The part I could really picture in my head was when he made his 50th goal in 39 games because I know how it feels on who to achieve something in the sport. I liked how it ended the book because of all the biographies I've read, it's usually something sad but in this book it wasn't sad at all. This book reminds of a guy named Uhron, he's an european hockey player, he was really good at the sport and so was Wayne but Wayne was better. I was surprised when he was in his first year of playing hockey, he wasn't good at the sport at all which is very surprising since his nickname was "The Great One." I would recommend this book to anyone who likes hockey and knows the Edmonton Oilers. He's still alive and he coaches the Phoinix Coyotes but his' legend lives on.

[Owen Caldwell · Rating 4 out of 5]

If you love hockey, this is the book for you

[Phoenix Cahill]

I think this is an excellent book for hockey players. It gives you facts about him and more insisting things.

[Cubechesser · Rating 5 out of 5]

It is a very good book for hockey players or fans and I think it gives you very good information about the Great One. I can really recommend this one.

[George Pavlus · Rating 4 out of 5]

Loaded with facts about his life.