THIN ICE – A SEASON IN HELL WITH THE NEW YORK RANGERS
$150.00
Look, I’m an ice hockey fanatic. I was the first captain of the Queens College Ice Hockey Club. I played hockey in the wee hours of the morning for over forty years. So when I met some of the Rangers at the Lone Star Café when they stumbled in one night to see Kinky Friedman play, I pounced. And I spend the next season with them. Some have called this book “The Ball Four of Hockey” alluding to Jim Bouton’s great gossipy behind the scenes book on his baseball career. But let’s let Thonza, an Amazon reviewer who rated the book 5 stars and titled his review “Still my favorite hockey book” give you the lowdown.
“If you recognize the name Larry Sloman, you may be familiar with his incredible account of the 1975 Rolling Thunder tour. Sloman is an excellent writer and in “Thin Ice”, he captures the 1979/80 season of the New York Rangers. Sloman follows the team, players and it’s fans on an arch-typical late 1970’s romp through the city and the season, capturing the players’ off ice lives, their struggles and triumph’s on the ice, and gives great insight to what it was to be a Rangers fan in NYC in the late 70’s. Sloman, a ranger fan himself, introduces us to the crazy hockey annies, lawyers turn night time Ranger fans, the incredible characters like Chief and the rest of the microcosm of Ranger fanatics.” This book is so juicy that one of the Ranger players actually shoved the edge of his stick blade into my face and threated me, only to back down when I told him that he’d be working for me for the rest of his life if he harmed a hair on my head. Studio 54, ooh la la Sassoon, all night afterhours clubs, it’s all here. Named one of the five best hockey books ever. Regrettably the book is out of print but I have a few left.
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