In what might be his most ambitious work, author and hockey legend Ken Dryden affirms the value of finding our similarities.
At the start of the 2020s, Dryden sought out people with whom he shared a uniquely Canadian coming-of-age experience during an ambitious era. In the early 1960s, Dryden was part of the ‘Brain Class’ at Etobicoke C.I. — students who loved to learn. Through meetings on Zoom during the COVID-19 pandemic, and in person, Dryden learned the biographies of 34-of-35 classmates to produce, “The Class: A Memoir Of A Time, A Place, And Us.”
Dryden’s classmates have led rich lives, finding their own ‘Stanley Cup’ in unexpected places. And, of course, Dryden won the Stanley Cup six times with the Montréal Canadiens in the 1970s and was the winning goalie in the decisive Game 8 of the Canada-USSR Summit Series in 1972. “The Class” is his ninth book.
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SportsLit (Season 4, Episode 10) - Rick Westhead (TSN) - Finding Murph - How Joe Murphy Went From Winning a Championship to Living Homeless in the Bush
SportsLit (Season 4, Episode 9) - Rick Vaive - Catch 22 - My Battles, in Hockey and Life
SportsLit (Season 4, Episode 8) - Angie Bullaro / Manon Rheaume - Breaking the Ice
SportsLit (Season 4, Episode 7) - Doug Smith (Toronto Star) - We The North - 25 Years of the Toronto Raptors
SportsLit (Season 4, Episode 6) - Willie O'Ree - Willie - The Game Changing Story of the NHL's First Black Player
SportsLit (Season 4, Episode 5) - Brian Burke - Burke's Law - A Life in Hockey
SportsLit (Season 4, Episode 4) - Sami Jo Small - The Role I Played
SportsLit (Season 4, Episode 3) - Jeff Pearlman - Three-Ring Circus: Kobe, Shaq, Phil, and the Crazy Years of the Lakers Dynasty
SportsLit (Season 4, Episode 2) - Bryan Berard - My Life in Hockey and the Power of Perseverance
SportsLit (Season 4, Episode 1) - Roy MacGregor - The Ice Chips and the Stolen Cup (Volume 4)
SportsLit (Season 3, Episode 5) - Ken Reid (Sportsnet) - Eddie Shack, Hockey's Most Entertaining Stories
SportsLit (Season 3, Episode 4) - Bernice Carnegie - A Fly in a Pail of Milk, The Herb Carnegie Story
SportsLit (Season 3, Episode 3) - Sean Fitz-Gerald (The Athletic) - Before the Lights Go Out
SportsLit (Season 3, Episode 2)- Jerry Howarth - Hello Friends, Stories from My Life and Blue Jays Baseball
SportsLit (Season 3, Episode 1) - Mark Hebscher - The Greatest Athlete You've Never Heard Of
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SportsLit (Season 2, Episode 12) - Glenn Stout (BASW) - The Pats, An Illustrated History of the New England Patriots
SportsLit (Season 2, Episode 11) - Damien Cox - The Last Good Year, Seven Games That Ended an Era
SportsLit (Season 2, Episode 10) - Sean McIndoe (Down Goes Brown) - The Down Goes Brown History of the NHL
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