Grandparents and parents of hockey players and fans are hitting amazon.com and bookstores looking for Christmas gifts. Don't buy a hockey book until you read Saturday's London Free Press print edition (preferred) or lfpress.com.
My hockey book reviews will be published and posted Saturday to help you decide if your money is best spent on Kerry Fraser, Don Cherry, Alex Ovechkin, Brian Kilrea or the ever humble Al Strachan.
I was at the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto before a Maple Leafs game last week and asked the gift shop staff and a nearby Chapters store what titles were selling well. At the Hockey Hall of Fame, it was their own Hockey Hall of Fame Book of Goalies. At Chapters, it was Don Cherry's Hockey Stories Part 2.
Neither shop was moving many copies of my three favourites, Kerry Fraser's Final Call, Al Strachan's I Am Not Making This Up and the Brian Kilrea-James Duthie tome They Call Me Killer.
Nor were they selling a lot of copies of the excellent Ovechkin biography, The Ovechkin Project by Damien Cox and Gare Joyce. If Ovechkin were a Toronto Maple Leaf (hey, we can dream), this book would be a national bestseller.
Readers of Wayne's World of Minor Hockey can order books by clicking the amazon.com ads.
You didn't mention the Bob Probert book. Our bookstore re-ordered it twice to meet local demand...
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