Goon by Doug Smith

Goon by Doug Smith

Driven with a burning desire to make something of himself, Doug Smith calls upon his only marketable skills - those honed as an amateur boxer - and despite not learning to skate until the age of 19, punches his way into the world of professional hockey. Join Doug ""The Thug"" Smith during his unlikely journey as a minor-league hockey enforcer, the most unique and peculiar job in all of sport.

“Smith was an enforcer, the kind of swaggering tough guy hockey teams bring on the ice to protect their star players and strike fear into the hearts of their opponents”—Grantland; “Gives details of every hockey fight he ever got into…loved reading about Smith’s experiences as the wide-eyed average guy, playing in front of large crowds and tussling with some of the toughest men from the 1990s.”—Puck Junk.

Doug Smith has worked as a police officer in Massachusetts for more than two decades and as an assistant coach for the three-time state-champion Hanover High School hockey team. He lives in Halifax, Massachusetts. Adam Frattasio is an adult education teacher and author of Steroid Man: Confessions of a Powerlifter from the Golden Age of Enhancement (McFarland, 2016). His first book, GOON: The True Story of an Unlikely Journey into Minor League Hockey, was adapted into the motion picture GOON and a sequel, GOON: Last of the Enforcers.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9781476671680
ISBN 10	1476671680
Title	Goon
Author	Doug Smith
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	McFarland
Year published	2017-12-21
Number of pages	240
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.