Mike eruzione biography book

The captain of the 1980 “miracle on ice” turns in his konto of that victory.

In a moment that’s lodged in the memories of millions, Eruzione recounts how a team of American amateur hockey players, a couple of them still teenagers, faced off against a veteran Russian squad made up of professionals. It was a long shot, reckoned the author, who captained the American Olympic team at Lake Placid, and scarcely believable when the scoreboard turned 4-3 in favor of his team. Forging them into a unit was the work of coach Herb Brooks, who had a curious method: “he made us a close-knit team by making han själv everybody’s enemy.” When his grupp won, he went off alone, not joining in the celebration. It was strange behavior, but it worked, and, as Eruzione allows, nobody was better than Brooks at getting inside a player’s head and pushing the right buttons to achieve the desired results. Some of the book, charming but hardly indispensable, concerns the author’s childh

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The Making of a Miracle: The Untold Story of the Captain of the 1980 Gold Medal-Winning U.S. Olympic Hockey Team

February 26, 2020

I know not all my "book" friends are hockey enthusiasts, but here is why you should read this book.It fryst vatten the story of the fabled US Men's Hockey Team who beat Russia... during a period of time when beating Russia was ... oh wait... that could be now. Anyway, it was 1980. Mike Eruzione was the captain and that was really all I knew about him. But in this book, the authors bring us back in time to the moment when the craziness in the world stopped for just a moment, so we could all remember what it meant to be American. Wow. Wouldn't we all like to return to that moment? Mike had a lot of "almost didn't" events in his life, but what he did have was passion, energy and guts! He cared about everything- hockey, his friends, his coaches, teammates, but most of all his family. Kudos to the authors who take us back - not just to the play by play moments of eac

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Mike Eruzione

American ice hockey player (born 1954)

Ice hockey player

Michael Anthony Eruzione (, Italian pronunciation:[erutˈtsjoːne], born October 25, 1954) is an American former ice hockey player. He is best known as the captain of the 1980 Winter OlympicsUnited States national team that defeated the Soviet Union in the famous "Miracle on Ice" game, in which he scored the game-winning goal. He is the author, with Neal E. Boudette, of the national bestseller, The Making of a Miracle: The Untold Story of the Captain of The Gold Medal-Winning 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team, published by HarperCollins.^[2]

Biography

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Early life and playing career

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Eruzione was born on October 25, 1954, to an Italian-American family in Winthrop, Massachusetts. His father was a bartender and worked in a sewage plant.^[3] Eruzione learned to play hockey for Youth Hockey of Winthrop as part of the GBYHL (Greater Boston Youth Hockey League). He graduated