Table of Contents
Foreword Pat Foley ix
Introduction xiii
Chapter 1 The Call 1
Chapter 2 The Birth of a Rink Rat 15
Chapter 3 The Olympics 27
Chapter 4 Coming Home 39
Chapter 5 Eddie Olczyk, Chicago Blackhawk 47
Chapter 6 Heading North 59
Chapter 7 Life as a Leaf 65
Chapter 8 A Question of Timing 89
Chapter 9 No More 1940 109
Chapter 10 Good-bye, New York; Hello, Winnipeg (Again) 133
Chapter 11 From L.A. to the Burgh 141
Chapter 12 Farewell, Hockey 153
Chapter 13 A New Perspective 159
Chapter 14 Behind the Bench, Briefly 167
Chapter 15 Back to the Booth 189
Chapter 16 The Calls to the Halls 209
Chapter 17 Witnessing History 217
Chapter 18 Going 12 Rounds with Cancer 227
Chapter 19 Getting Back on the Broadcasting Horse 255
Chapter 20 A Blessed Union 265
Chapter 21 One More Shift 269
Chapter 22 A Rangers Reunion 275
Chapter 23 Witnessing History (Again) 279
Chapter 24 Thank God I Got Sick 287
Afterword 293
Acknowledgments 315