Tales from the Pittsburgh Penguins - Hardcover

Joe Starkey

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1582611998 ISBN 13: 9781582611990

Publisher: Sports Publishing, 2006

Synopsis

Readers have the chance to meet the Pittsburgh Penguins, one of the wildest, wackiest, most wonderful sports franchises that ever waddled its way across North America. If Penguins fans are not shedding tears of sadness, they are crying for joy or simply laughing so hard they cannot stop. The team's games once played on a station called WEEP, and its first mascot, a penguin named Pete, died of pneumonia. In Tales from the Pittsburgh Penguins, sportswriter Joe Starkey takes fans inside the locker rooms, onto the team buses (including the one defenseman Bryan "Buggsy" Watson hi-jacked) and behind the personalities that have shaped Penguins hockey since 1967. No franchise has survived more near-death experience than this one, which twice went bankrupt and man times escaped the threat of relocation. In 1975 things were so tough that players had their postgame oranges taken away.

About this title

About the Author:

Joe Starkey is an award-winning reporter and columnist for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. He has covered the Penguins since 1997 for the Tribune-Review and The Hockey News, following stories ranging from Mario Lemieux's greatest comeback to the team's second plunge into bankruptcy. In 2003 Starkey won a Golden Quill Award, presented by the Press Club of Western Pennsylvania, for his story on chewing tobacco abuse in baseball. He grew up in Buffalo, New York, attended graduate school at Duquesne University, and resides in Pittsburgh.

About this edition

• Publisher: Sports Publishing
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1582611998
• ISBN 13: 9781582611990
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 200