STAN MIKITA - The Turbulent Career of a Hockey Superstar by Fischler, Stan (re: Stan Mikita) - 1969

Chicago: Cowles Book Company, 1969. (ix) 213 pp. Turquoise cloth lettered in black on the spine; illustrated with black and white plates. Includes a dropped-in hockey card of Stan Mikita from the undated ESSO NHL All-Star series. Some wear at the corners of the dustjacket with a few nicks around the edges; price intact; no interior markings. The Contents are: Introduction by Rudy Pilous; The Past Meets the Present; Early Childhood in Czechoslovakia; The Fateful Visit; A New Life; The DP Learns Hockey; Up to the Black Hawks; Learning the Hard Way; The Homecoming; Fights and More Fights; Rise of the Scooter Line; Billy Reay Makes the Scene; Always Bridesmaids; From Bang to Byng; At Last; Loss of the Holy Grail; Back from Disaster; Mikita vs Mr Nice Guy; Year of Torment; and A Place Among the Immortals; followed by Bonus Section: A Short History of the Zany Black Hawks; Mikita's Statistics; Gossary; and Index.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.