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Stephen Brunt, Searching for Bobby Orr. (Random House)
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Stephen Brunt, a columnist at the Globe and Mail , is Canada’s premier sportswriter and commentator. He is the author of The Way It Looks from Here: Contemporary Canadian Writing on Sports ; Facing Ali: The Opposition Weighs In ; Mean Business: The Rise and Fall of Shawn O’Sullivan ; Second to None: The Roberto Alomar Story and Diamond Dreams: 20 Years of Blue Jays Baseball . He lives in Hamilton, Ontario.
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Sunday, April 1, 2007
Lord Nelson Hotel
2PM
with Marq de Villiers and Andy Brown
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---------------------------------------------- -In Searching for Bobby Orr, Canada’s foremost sportswriter gives us a compelling and graceful look at the life and times of Bobby Orr that is also a revealing portrait of a game and a country in transition.
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So Bobby Orr could skate, he could stickhandle, he could fight when he had to. He could shoot without looking at the net, without tipping a goaltender as to what was coming. His slapshot came without a big windup, and was deadly accurate. Skating backwards, defending, he was all but unbeatable one on one. He could poke check the puck away, or muscle a forward into the boards. In front of his own net, stronger on his feet than his skinny frame would suggest, he wouldn’t be moved. But there was more…
–from Searching for Bobby Orr
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