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  • The Boys of Winter

  • The Untold Story of a Coach, a Dream, and the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team
  • By: Wayne Coffey
  • Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
  • Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (7 ratings)

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By: Wayne Coffey
Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
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Summary

Once upon a time, they taught us to believe. They were the 1980 US Olympic hockey team, a blue-collar bunch led by an unconventional coach, and they engineered perhaps the greatest sports moment of the 20th century. Their "Miracle on Ice" has become a national fairy tale, but the real Cinderella story is even more remarkable. It is a legacy of hope, hard work, and homegrown triumph. It is a chronicle of everyday heroes who just wanted to play hockey happily ever after. It is still unbelievable.

The Boys of Winter is an evocative account of the improbable American adventure in Lake Placid, New York. Drawing on hundreds of hours of interviews, Wayne Coffey explores the untold stories of the US upstarts, their Soviet opponents, and the forces that brought them together.

©2005 Wayne Coffey; foreword copyright 2005 by Jim Craig; afterword copyright 2005 by Wayne Coffey (P)2017 Tantor
Hockey Olympics & Paralympics Sports United States Hockey Biographies
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"Well-written and thoroughly researched.... Filled with primary interviews and exceptional insight, Coffey's effort should delight more than just hockey fans." ( Publishers Weekly)

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