The Boys of Winter, Wayne Coffey
The Boys of Winter, Wayne Coffey
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The Boys of Winter
The Untold Story of a Coach, a Dream, and the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team

Author: Wayne Coffey

Narrator: Kirby Heyborne

Unabridged: 8 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/28/2017


Synopsis

Once upon a time, they taught us to believe. They were the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team, a blue-collar bunch led by an unconventional coach, and they engineered perhaps the greatest sports moment of the twentieth 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 U.S. upstarts, their Soviet opponents, and the forces that brought them together.

About Wayne Coffey

Wayne Coffey is an award-winning sportswriter for the New York Daily News and the author of Winning Sounds Like This, among other books.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Andrew on July 30, 2020

Oh man I had such a hard time rating this book. I had been looking forward to reading it for the better part of a month and finally it was available on loan from the library. I loved reliving the game and I loved the background stories of the key players, but the story format is disappointing. The a......more

Goodreads review by Marshall on March 19, 2025

Better than the movie!......more