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Much of the hockey book hubbub these days is about  Bobby Orr's autobiography, Orr: My Story . But Orr isn't the only former NHL defenseman who is the subject of a book in 2013. Here's a look at some others: Gordie Howe's Son: A Hall of Fame Life In The Shadows Of Mr. Hockey by Mark Howe (with Jay Greenberg)  -  Growing up in the shadows of a famous father can never be easy. But when you are an aspiring hockey player and your father is the greatest player the game has ever known, it must be a dark, dark shadow. Mark Howe, with the help of Jay Greenberg, tells us all about that shadow, his dad Gordie Howe, and his own Hall of Fame life in hockey in his autobiography. Buy The Book:  Amazon.ca  -  Chapters  -  Amazon.com   Heart of the Blackhawks: The Pierre Pilote Story by Pierre Pilote with L. Waxy Gregoire and David M. Dupuis. When the ghosts of hockey's past reminisce about the 1960 Chicago Blackhawks, they almost alwa...

Growing up in the shadows of a famous father can't be easy. But when you are an aspiring hockey player and your father is the greatest player the game has ever known, it must be a dark, dark shadow. Mark Howe, with the help of Jay Greenberg, tells us all about that shadow, his dad Gordie Howe, and his own Hall of Fame life in hockey in his autobiography: Gordie Howe's Son: A Hall of Fame Life In The Shadow of Mr. Hockey . Buy The Book: Amazon.ca - Chapters - Amazon.com Perhaps best known as the son of “Mr. Hockey,” Mark Howe managed to emerge from the shadow cast by his father to achieve greatness in his own right and in this book he vividly describes his unparalleled life in hockey. A U.S. Olympian at age 16 and a four-time NHL All-Star, Howe was elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2011. A year later, Mark Howe’s number was retired by the Philadelphia Flyers, where he starred for 10 seasons in the 1980s. After earning his 1972 silver medal for the U.S. Olympic...