Gold Mine To Gold Medal And Beyond

McLelland, Ivan

Penticton, BC, 2012


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Details

Card covers, 464 pages, 5.75x8.75 in., [14.5x22.5 cm.], B&W photographs.

Condition

Author's presentation inscription on the limitation page; covers with moderate surface wear.

Notes


Memoir of goaltender Ivan McLelland, recounting his early life and hockey career, with particular attention to the Penticton Vees’ victory at the 1955 World Ice Hockey Championships in Germany. The work describes the team’s defeat of the Soviet Union in the championship game and reflects on the beginnings of the modern international hockey rivalry. Also includes personal reminiscences of family life, and post-hockey years.

ISBN

9781771360036