The Great One: The Complete Wayne Gretzky Collection

About this book

Sports Illustrated followed The Great Ones career right from the very beginning. Starting in 1978 when Gretzky was a young phenom playing for the Soo Greyhounds they had their best writers cover his rise to fame and subsequent dominance of the sport. His staggering career stats tend to overshadow the struggles he faced in his career -- the early days in Edmonton when he was establishing himself as the greatest player but could not lead his team to a cup. The years after the trade that shook the hockey world he spent years trying to lead a new team to glory only managing to reach the final once more in 1993 and losing in five games. Covered as well are his forgotten goal-droughts the thoughts that he had lost his touch in the early nineties. His struggles with injury and playing though his fathers near death. The Great One reads not like a sports book but a biography of one of the greatest athletes of all time. Sports Illustrateds greatest writers all contribute articles EM Swift Michael Farber Jack Kalla to tell the complete story of Wayne Gretzkys career.