Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Shoots and Scores

Uncle John's Facts and Trivia

by Bathroom Readers' Institute

This collection of slap shots, high sticks, and toothless grins offers fans everything they love about its colorful history, legendary players, and enough hard-hitting trivia to occupy even the most avid stat head. The latest title in the new Uncle John’s series dedicated to the wide (and weird!) world of sports, Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Shoots and Scores shares the origins 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 (and those who lived to tell the tale), a rap sheet of hockey arrests, goalies' superstitions (Patrick Roy's conversations with goal posts; Glenn Hall's pre-game gastric cleansing), and much, much more.

Genres: Sports, Nonfiction, Hockey, Humor, Trivia

288 pages, Paperback

First published November 30, 2005

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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.