We Can Teach You to Play Hockey (1972)

I posted some images of Tony O from this book, another Esposito brothers collaboration, before his Heritage Night at the United Center, shortly before the NHL Olympic break. I didn't post the cover yet, so here you go. I really like the design, but I've gotta say the back cover doesn't seem like the most flattering shot they could have used...

 

 

more amusing photos from it later...

Tony Esposito can teach you to play hockey (1972)

if you followed my series on the 1971 book The Brothers Esposito (missed it? it's conveniently located in the tag "The Brothers Esposito"), you can imagine how delighted I was to find that Phil and Tony collaborated on another book in the early 1970s, We Can Teach You to Play Hockey (with Kevin Walsh, Hawthorn Books, Inc., 1972). I found this in a used bookstore in Cambridge on my Boston trip. all the chapters except the one on goaltending are by Phil, and the whole book has many fantastic practice photos illustrating basics of hockey (and a few game photos). the cover is great, too. of course I'll be posting much more from it (and like the other book, I've actually read the whole thing), but for now, some goalie stuff, in advance of Tony Esposito Heritage Night tonight at the United Center, when the Blackhawks face the Dallas Stars.