Bobby Orr and the Big, Bad Bruins

by Stan Fischler

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Genres: Sports, Hockey, History, Nonfiction

230 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1969

Reviews

[wally · Rating 3 out of 5]

this looks like it could be the one i read about bobby orr...way back in the day...1974, '75 thereabouts. i thought the cover was a bit different...there are quite a few books about orr, and the one i was looking for--i have this image--that i could not find...this was the closest.

the image i had, had orr in their dark jerseys.

anyone remember the playoff game...was it vs montreal? chicago?...there was fog on the ice. watching it on the brand-new color television was a hoot...you could see shadows moving through the mist. unreal. they finished the game. bruins probably won.

no helmets. sheesh!

i think cheevers had that mask w/the stitches painted on? the whole mask, stitches.

i enjoyed it....although my team was the wings, back when gordie howe played? have this autographed card from gordie...

great game...super player.

memories...here on the perimeter, we're getting a snowstorm. saw on the news last night something about alaska, twenty feet of snow...we've had 400" winters. not this winter, but what they showed on the news last night about alaska happens all winter long for us.

imagine clearing the outdoor rink to play...we did...gaaaa. and then we'd work up a sweat playing...ten below outside...yikes.

[Tate Quinton · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved this book. I had my parents buy this for me (didn't have a job) when I was 8 during the 70-71 season at (I believe) a Reading PA bookstore. Much better than I remember. My memory was that Fisher was very slow to recognize Orr's divinity and was always trying to promote someone else as the best. The person I remember that he pushed the most was Brad Park-a great player, Bruin, and Hall of Famer but obviously not in Orr's league. The book opens with a quick few pages on the Bruins 70 Stanley Cup but the rest of the book only goes through the 68-69 season. The game is better for it's continuing reduction of violence but I do have a certain wistfulness for the causal violence and description of said violence in the past. I miss the phrase or game description where someone is massaging someone else's neck with their stick. Also, he describes Ed Westfall early in his career as skating like a "retarded hippo." So Bobby Orr skated like a mensa hippo?

[Ed · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very dated time-capsule of the late 60's early 70's era. Interesting read on Bobby Orr, but after that it becomes somewhat tedius as it provides generalities about some of the other players. Overall, this is a great read for HUGE B's fans - otherwise its just marketing fluff. I happen to be a huge Bruins fan, so I enjoyed it (at least most of it).

[Griffin Mudge · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a difficult book to read with big vocabulary and small fonts, but it was a great book about the legend Bobby Orr