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Breaking the Ice: The Black Experience in Professional Hockey
 
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Breaking the Ice: The Black Experience in Professional Hockey (Hardcover)

by Cecil Harris (Author)
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The first book to tell the unique stories of black hockey players-how they overcame or succumbed to racial and cultural prejudices to excel at one of North America's favorite sports.


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Cecil Harris is a veteran sports reporter who has covered the NHL for The Hockey News and The Sporting News. He covered the Carolina Hurricanes for the Raleigh News & Observer and the New York Rangers and New York Islanders for Newsday. Breaking the Ice is his first book. Harris lives in Yonkers, New York.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Exploring Black Hockey accomplishments despite adversities, April 18 2004
Despite the fact that I am not a sports fan, I became engrossed in the book Breaking The Ice. This literary work is a true page turner. In comparison to the typical sports book, which is filled with statistics and plays, Harris; expertise in this field yielded an exploratory history of Black Hockey Players' successes and many obstacles in pursuit of reaching the pinnacle of their game. For most that meant achieving the goal of being a National Hockey League player. Breaking The Ice examines those Black Hockey players who in their attempt to obtain this goal endured much inhumane treatment but continues to persevere. Along with the players' mental anguish, Harris' documents how players such as: Carnegie, Marson, O'Ree, and Mayers (to name a few) love of the game inspired them to continue following their dreams even in the face of outrageous resistance from the spectators, fellow players and coaches. The Black Hockey players were determined to make it and to overcome no matter what.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Exploring Black Hockey accomplishments despite adversities, April 18 2004
By BMcGowan (Connecticut) - See all my reviews
Despite the fact that I am not a sports fan, I became engrossed in the book Breaking The Ice. This literary work is a true page turner. In comparison to the typical sports book, which is filled with statistics and plays, Harris; expertise in this field yielded an exploratory history of Black Hockey Players' successes and many obstacles in pursuit of reaching the pinnacle of their game. For most that meant achieving the goal of being a National Hockey League player. Breaking The Ice examines those Black Hockey players who in their attempt to obtain this goal endured much inhumane treatment but continues to persevere. Along with the players' mental anguish, Harris' documents how players such as: Carnegie, Marson, O'Ree, and Mayers (to name a few) love of the game inspired them to continue following their dreams even in the face of outrageous resistance from the spectators, fellow players and coaches. The Black Hockey players were determined to make it and to overcome no matter what.
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4.0 out of 5 stars What does Buck Leonard have in common with Herbie Carnegie?, April 12 2004
By Edward A. Cesarone (Kirkland, WA USA) - See all my reviews
Cecil Harris has chronicled the history of black hockey players attempting to professionally compete in the National Hockey League. Parellels abound with the countless Afro-American baseball players attempting to play professional baseball from the early 1900's to the ground breaking Jackie Robinson inclusion in 1947.
Bonafide NHL candidates like Herbie Carnegie and Manny McIntyre were denied entry into the NHL simply because they were black...yet they were permitted to play for the Quebec Aces along with Jean Beliveau...and excelled.
Read about Willie O'Ree becoming the first black to play in the NHL with the Boston Bruins. Enduring the insults and indignites just to professionally compete in the game of hockey, O'Ree was hockey's version of Jackie Robinson.
Today, thanks to Carnegie and O'Ree, we can view black players like Jarome Iginla leading Calgary's Stanley Cup quest, as one of the major stars of the 21st century.
Carnegie, McIntyre, O'Ree and countless others (meticulously outlined in Harris' text), clearly led the way for today's Iginla, Anson Carter and Nathan Robinson...
Cecil Harris provides a timely snapshot of a welome addition to the NHL, the black professional hockey player competing at the highest level as skilled players.
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