Fail Better: Why Baseball Matters

By Mark Kingwell

When Roger Angell started writing baseball essays for The New Yorker in the 1960s, he knew he’d need a fresh angle on the beloved game. He found it right where he was sitting: in the ... Read More »

May 18, 2017 | Filed under: Reviews, Sports, Health & Self-help

★ Baseball Life Advice: Loving the Game That Saved Me

By Stacey May Fowles

When Roger Angell started writing baseball essays for The New Yorker in the 1960s, he knew he’d need a fresh angle on the beloved game. He found it right where he was sitting: in the ... Read More »

May 18, 2017 | Filed under: Reviews, Sports, Health & Self-help

Boy on Ice: The Life and Death of Derek Boogaard

By John Branch

The sudden death in 2011 of National Hockey League enforcer Derek Boogaard shocked the hockey world in ways that continue to resonate today. Just 28 at the time of his death, Boogaard was the NHL’s ... Read More »

November 19, 2014 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Sports, Health & Self-help

Playing It Forward: 50 Years of Women and Sport in Canada

By Guylaine Demers; Lorraine Greaves; Marion Lay; Sandra Kirby; eds.

Since February 2008, The Feminist History Society has made it their mission to rigorously document the Canadian feminist movement between the years 1960 and 2010. The goal is that, each year, society members receive a ... Read More »

November 19, 2014 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Mr. Hockey: My Story

By Gordie Howe

Hockey great Gordie Howe had long since established himself as an elite NHL talent by the time his wife, Colleen, gave birth to the couple’s first child, Marty, in 1954. Arguably the game’s best player, ... Read More »

November 17, 2014 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Sports, Health & Self-help

Death of Derek Boogaard

By John Branch

The sudden death in 2011 of National Hockey League enforcer Derek Boogaard shocked the hockey world in ways that continue to resonate today. Just 28 at the time of his death, Boogaard was the NHL’s ... Read More »

October 16, 2014 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Paddlenorth: Adventure, Resilience, and Renewal in the Arctic Wild

By Jennifer Kingsely

Jennifer Kingsley is a wilderness guide, naturalist, and conservationist. She has a degree in biology and has published articles in magazines, journals, and newspapers. Paddlenorth, Kingsley’s first book, chronicles her 54-day canoeing expedition on the ... Read More »

September 5, 2014 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Changing the Game: A History of the NHL Expansion

By Stephen Laroche

Long before the Florida Panthers and the Anaheim Ducks, there were the Montreal Maroons and the Detroit Cougars. The original expansion era of the National Hockey League began in the 1920s, when today’s bedrock teams ... Read More »

September 5, 2014 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Great Expectations: The Lost Toronto Blue Jays Season

By Shi Davidi and John Lott

Great Expectations is a first pass at the history of the 2013 Toronto Blue Jays, written by two of the team’s best beat reporters, Sportsnet’s Shi Davidi and the National Post’s John Lott. Positioned as ... Read More »

February 20, 2014 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Don’t Call Me Goon: Hockey’s Greatest Enforcers, Gunslingers, and Bad Boys

By Greg Oliver and Richard Kamchen

Hockey players who make their living primarily with their fists are described by a variety of names, but calling them goons is apparently disrespectful. That’s the premise behind Don’t Call Me Goon, in which authors ... Read More »

February 20, 2014 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

The NHL: 100 Years of On-Ice Action and Boardroom Battles

By D’Arcy Jenish

The author of histories of the Montreal Canadiens and the St. Lawrence Seaway, D’Arcy Jenish clearly enjoys comprehensive retrospectives, and this trait is evident in his new book on the NHL’s first century. If you’re ... Read More »

November 13, 2013 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

The Lonely End of the Rink: Confessions of a Reluctant Goalie

By Grant Lawrence

Two boys, both regularly beaten black and blue by the schoolyard bully and disappointed by the doomed fortunes of their respective hometown hockey teams, find salvation from eternal nerdom by joining rock bands. The two ... Read More »

November 13, 2013 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Keon and Me: My Search for the Lost Soul of the Leafs

By Dave Bidini

Two boys, both regularly beaten black and blue by the schoolyard bully and disappointed by the doomed fortunes of their respective hometown hockey teams, find salvation from eternal nerdom by joining rock bands. The two ... Read More »

November 13, 2013 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

A Great Game: The Forgotten Leafs and the Rise of Professional Hockey

By Stephen J. Harper

If A Great Game had been written by someone other than the sitting prime minister of Canada, it would have debuted with little fanfare. But because Stephen Harper (or Stephen J. Harper, as his name appears ... Read More »

November 7, 2013 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Heart of the Blackhawks: The Pierre Pilote Story

By L. Waxy Gregoire and David M. Dupuis with Pierre Pilote

Bobby Hull has often joked that he loved wearing the Chicago Blackhawks jersey because its distinctive crest looked a lot like Pierre Pilote’s face. Pilote, who played from 1955 to ’69, became one of the ... Read More »

October 22, 2013 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Little Ship of Fools: 16 Rowers, 1 Improbable Boat, and 7 Tumultuous Weeks on the Atlantic

By Charles Wilkins

In his new book, Charles Wilkins, author of nine previous works of non-fiction, chronicles his successful attempt to row across the Atlantic Ocean from Morocco to Barbados. The crew for this 2011 journey consisted of ... Read More »

September 27, 2013 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

The Trial of Pope Benedict: Joseph Ratzinger and the Vatican’s Assault on Reason, Compassion, and Human Dignity

By Daniel Gawthrop

In the same spirit of j’accuse journalism as Christopher Hitchens’ The Trial of Henry Kissinger, Daniel Gawthrop takes on the legacy of the recently retired Pope Benedict XVI (né Joseph Ratzinger) in an impassioned broadside ... Read More »

August 16, 2013 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Full Count: Four Decades of Blue Jays Baseball

By Jeff Blair

Reading the introduction to Jeff Blair’s history of the Toronto Blue Jays is a maddening experience a few weeks into the 2013 season. He writes about the promise and hope at the beginning of the ... Read More »

June 18, 2013 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Hope and Heartbreak in Toronto: Life as a Maple Leafs Fan

By Peter Robinson

Under the heading “No Such Thing as Bad Publicity,” even the chronic crappiness of the Toronto Maple Leafs – Stanley Cup–free for 45 years and counting, absent from the playoffs since 2004 – has spawned ... Read More »

January 3, 2013 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

My Year of the Racehorse: Falling in Love with the Sport of Kings

By Kevin Chong

One day, out of the blue, Vancouver author Kevin Chong decided to become part owner of a racehorse. The mare in question is Blackie, the kind of horse, Chong writes, that resembles a suspicious character ... Read More »

April 12, 2012 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

How Hockey Explains Canada: The Sport that Defines a Country

By Paul Henderson with Jim Prime

The next time our federal immigration minister decides to revise study materials for the citizenship test, he may want to consider including this quick history of Canada’s game. The book contains a lengthy and engrossing ... Read More »

February 7, 2012 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Freedom Climbers

By Bernadette McDonald

In Freedom Climbers, Bernadette McDonald, the founding vice-president of mountain culture at the Banff Centre and author of seven books on international mountaineering, tells the story of a group of 20th-century Poles who overcame social ... Read More »

October 31, 2011 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Teens Gone Wired: Are You Ready?

By Lyndsay Green

This easygoing advice book sets out to reassure parents who are intimidated, mystified, or just plain clueless about how the digital revolution may be affecting their teenage children. Lyndsay Green, a sociologist and researcher, takes ... Read More »

October 25, 2011 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Patriot Hearts: Inside the Olympics That Changed a Country

By John Furlong with Gary Mason

Arriving exactly one year after the 2010 Olympics, this memoir by John Furlong, the former chief of the Vancouver Olympic Committee, is partly about the author’s journey from Ireland to Canada, and from an obscure ... Read More »

February 28, 2011 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Eddie Shore and That Old-Time Hockey

By C. Michael Hiam

For hockey fans who consider the game of yore to have been less prone to cheap shots and hooliganism and more gentlemanly than today’s version, C. Michael Hiam’s new biography of Saskatchewan-born bruiser Eddie Shore ... Read More »

January 25, 2011 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help