Hockey Is My Life

by Phil Esposito, Gerald Eskanazi

Professional Hockey Biography Autobiography of Phil Esposito

Genres: Hockey, Sports

207 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1972

Reviews

[Joe Seliske · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is written in the first person, so it is as if Phil is telling you the story of his life. He talks a lot about the things that he felt when he was moving between junior teams, being sent down to a lower level - sitting on the bench when he first came up with the Chicago Black Hawks. Then the book takes a turn describing in detail how he runs his hockey camp in Minnesota and then how each of the positions in hockey should be played. The last chapter is a quick recollection of the 1972 Canada-Russia Hockey Summit series. Not difficult to read, just not good writing. I was expecting an autobiography, but instead got a memoir. (A memoir is a collection of memories written by the person.) This is definitely a collection.