Wheelers, Dealers, Pucks & Bucks: A Rocking History of Roller Hockey International

Richard Neil Graham

Wheelers, Dealers, Pucks & Bucks: A Rocking History of Roller Hockey International
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Inline Hockey Central
Published
28 March 2012
Pages
342
ISBN
9780983406037

Wheelers, Dealers, Pucks & Bucks: A Rocking History of Roller Hockey International

Richard Neil Graham

Who won the first professional sports championship for the city of Anaheim? Which Roller Hockey International team owner posed for Playboy? Which RHI team’s logo did Sports Illustrated describe as looking like a malevolent vacuum-cleaner attachment? Which coach won two championships for two different teams in RHI’s first two seasons? Why were fans nearly ejected from the Oakland Skates’ arena for celebrating a hat trick? All those questions and more are answered in Wheelers, Dealers, Pucks & Bucks: A Rocking History of Roller Hockey International. Author Richard Graham takes you behind the scenes to show how Dennis Murphy created Roller Hockey International, and why Murphy might be the most unlikely, least known and most influential visionary in North American professional sports history. RHI was a professional league that ran from 1993-1999 and soared and then crashed much like the inline skating craze of the 1990s. Full of thrills, spills and body checks, along with an abundance of humor, Wheelers, Dealers, Pucks & Bucks is the story of a niche sport and a professional league that dared to dream big.

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