"Eagle" is the story of how hockey became a multi-million dollar business. For the first time, journalist Deidra Roberts-Clayton reveals the financial and corporate workings of Hockey Canada, the NHL Players' Association, the NHL-WHA merger, and the International World Hockey Tournaments. Alan Eagleson - World Hockey Czar, union boss for the National Hockey League Players' Association, business agent, Tory politician, investment counsellor, entrepreneur, negotiator extraordinaire - is undoubtedly one of sport's most celebrated and controversial figures. This unauthorized biography takes us inside the Eagleson empire. Roberts-Clayton draws an uncompromising picture of the public and private man through dozens of interviews with hockey greats - Bobby Orr, Marcel Dionne, Darryl Sittler - to Eagleson's own financial advisors and business colleagues. Above all, "Eagle" is a fascinating, penetrating biography of a complex individual who, perhaps more than anyone, has changed the face of sport in Canada.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First. pp.246 with index. clean tight copy but for foxing to text pages, pgs.244-245 has spine gutter broken but all pages still attached, a spot of soiling on backpiece, d/j slight edge and corner wear of creasing to all extremities some soiling to back cover good reading copy only Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Seller Inventory # 022967
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 246 pages including index. "A fascinating, penetrating biography of a complex individual who, perhaps more than anyone, has changed the face of sport in Canada." - from dust jacket. Years after publication, Mr. Eagleson was exposed as someone who similarly changed the perception of ethics of sport in Canada. Unmarked. Clean. Yellowing to contents. Moderate lean to spine. Dust jacket shows light edge wear. Seller Inventory # 52109263
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Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 8vo pp. 246, pages evenly foxed, book. Seller Inventory # 258932
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