Format:
Book
Title:
Boy on ice : the life and death of Derek Boogaard / John Branch.
Author:
Branch, John (Sports reporter), author.
Call Number:
796.962092 BOOGAARD
Edition:
First edition.
Publisher, Date:
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2014]
Description:
371 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary:
The "death of hockey star Derek Boogaard at twenty-eight was front-page news across the country in 2011 and helped shatter the silence about violence and concussions in professional sports. Now, in a ... work of narrative nonfiction, ... reporter John Branch tells the ... story of Boogaard's life and heartbreaking death"--Amazon.com.
Subjects:
Boogaard, Derek, 1982-2011.
Hockey players -- Canada -- Biography.
Violence in sports.
ISBN:
9780393239393 (hbk.)
039323939X (hbk.)