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   1982 Punch Imlach "Heaven And Hell In The NHL" 1st Edition Book   
      
      
   I have for sale the 1st edition, hardcover book "Heaven And Hell In The   
   NHL" by Punch Imlach with Scott Young (1982). This out-of-print, hardcover,   
   edition book contains 216 pages with vintage black and white photographs on   
   the life and coaching career of Toronto Maple Leafs' coach Punch Imlach.   
   Front Jacket Excerpt:   
   "The worst three years of my long and generally happy life in hockey began   
   of Friday, June 8, 1979." That's the way Punch Imlach begins a book that   
   will have hockey followers laughing in some places and gasping in others.   
   The public image of Toronto Maple Leafs' captain and leader Darryl Sittler   
   is hotly compared to the Sittler Imlach had to deal with privately. Leafs'   
   owner, Harold Ballard, is nationaly known for being able to make top news   
   anywhere, anytime. He's even more fascinating close up. Imlach tells what   
   it's like to work with Ballard day by day-including the day Imlach told   
   him, "Harold, you've got the biggest case of foot in mouth disease I ever   
   saw in my life." But this book isn't only about the Leafs. It also covers   
   in a fun-loving and exciting way the years in which Imlach built the   
   Buffalo Sabres from very little, with Reg Flemming and Eddie Shack keeping   
   crowds laughing, to joining the the class of the league. Fired late in   
   1978, Ballard brought Imlach back to Toronto and gave him a free hand to   
   change the Leafs from chronic second-raters to the kind of team with which   
   Imlach won four Stanley Cups in the 1960s. The story of how he tried-the   
   the slowdowns to get a coach fired, his shouting matches with Sittler, his   
   reasons for trades - is told here, for the first time. Through his last   
   Toronto years, because of his heart condition, Imlach rarely talked to the   
   press. Now he tells it all. It's a tough and sentimental book, with   
   Imlach's love for the game and for his particular kind of player always   
   showing through."   
   The 1982 Punch Imlach "Heaven And Hell In The NHL" 1st edition hardcover   
   book is in MINT condition.   
   Price $35. US plus postage   
      
      
   Please include your "postal mailing address" so I can calculate postage   
   costs to your destination. Thank you   
      
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