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Willie : The Game-Changing Story of the NHL's First Black Player by Willie O'Ree; Michael McKinley; Jarome Iginla is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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An inspiring memoir that shows that anyone can achieve their dreams if they are willing to fight for them. In 1958, Willie O'Ree was a lot like any other player toiling in the minors. He was good. Good enough to have been signed by the Boston Bruins. Just not quite good enough to play in the NHL. Until January 18 of that year. O'Ree was finally called up, and when he stepped out onto the ice against the Montreal Canadiens, not only did he fulfil the childhood dream he shared with so many other Canadian kids, he did something that had never been done before. He broke hockey's colour barrier. Just as his hero, Jackie Robinson, had done for baseball. In that pioneering first NHL game, O'Ree proved that no one could stop him from being a hockey player. But he soon learned that he could never be just a hockey player. He would always be a black player, with all that entails. There were ugly name-calling and stick-swinging incidents, and nights when the Bruins had to be escorted to their bus by the police. But O'Ree never backed down. When he retired in 1979, he had played hundreds of games as a pro, and scored hundreds of goals, his boyhood dreams more than accomplished. In 2018, O'Ree

Author

Willie O'Ree; Michael McKinley; Jarome Iginla

Publisher

Viking, an imprint of Penguin Canada

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9780735239746

Subjects

Memoir, Sports, Anthropology

Rating

4.8 / 5 (192 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14