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

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

by Wayne Coffey

The Story of the Greatest Sports Moment of the Twentieth Century

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 what Sports Illustrated called the greatest sports moment of the twentieth century. Their “Miracle on Ice” has become a national fairy tale, but the... (read more)

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On a cold February night in 1980, wrapped in the small upstate New York village, Lake Placid became the place where an American legend was born. Against impossible odds, a young, feisty group of kids, led by their tyrannical coach Herb Brooks, took down the best hockey team in the world.

The book is a play-by-play account of that fateful night. Narrated with tangible action and from the words of the men who played, from both sides. It's hard not to chant U-S-A! U-S-A! as you...

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