Mark Howe - Gordie Howes Son
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Hilarious and touching personal stories of being great in the shadow of greatness, with a foreword by Wayne Gretzky.
Did you ever wonder what it would be like to have hockey legend Gordie Howe as your dad? If youre like thousands of Canadians who grew up in the 1960s and 70s, you need look no further than Mark Howes funny, intimate account of being a Howe.
As a boy, Mark played ball hockey with the kids of other Detroit Red Wings on the stairs of the Olympia, and his mom, Colleen, created a place where the neighbourhood children could play hockey in the winter, even to the detriment of her own windows. At age sixteen, Mark was the youngest player ever to win an Olympic hockey medal. At eighteen, he joined his legendary father and his older brother, Marty, to become the first father-and-son teammates in hockey history, playing with the Houston Aeros of the WHA. Howe carried the Philadelphia Flyers to two Stanley Cup finals and completed a twenty-two-year professional career with the Detroit Red Wings, with whom Gordie played for twenty-five seasons. When Mark was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2011, he honoured his father by proudly wearing Gordies retired number 9 Red Wings jersey at the ceremony.
Gordie Howes Son features many touching, sometimes harrowing storiesGordie caring for his wife, Colleen, as she became debilitated by Picks disease, and a freak accident that almost killed Mark while playing for the Hartford Whalers. Featuring many never-before-published photographs of the Howes, this is a book about hockeys royal family told through the career of its Hall of Fame son.
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Gordie and Colleen, poolside on their honeymoon in Hollywood, Florida, 1953.
I lived the first four years of my life in this home on Stawell Avenue in Detroit.
Marty and me with Moms family. From the left: Colleen, Great-Grandmother Ovens and Grandma Margaret.
With Mom and Marty, 1958.
Christmas 1958 with Aunt Elsie, Uncle Hughie and Marty.
Five-year-old Marty and four-year-old me, dressed against the fall chill, in 1959.
We moved to Sunset Boulevard in Lathrup Village, Michigan, when I was four.
Swimming with Gordie and Marty in Florida.
Marty and me in front of Dads fireplace trophy wall in our Lathrup Village home.
With Marty and the fish tank before I broke it.
Marty and I built our snowman with arms made from broken hockey sticks.
Dads parents, Ab and Kate Howe, with my sister, Cathy, and brother Murray in Lathrup Village.
Posing with Dad and a tarpon at the Philpott family home in North Miami Beach, Florida.
Sitting on Moms handmade winged wheel mosaic table in my Number 9 attire.
With Dad and Marty at Camp Weegeewa, near Parry Sound, Ontario.
Having donned my equipment in our Lathrup Village home, Im ready to go to practice.
Gordie Howe Hockeyland, in St. Clair Shores, Michigan. Mom and Dad took out a second mortgage to help build the first permanent rink, other than Olympia Stadium, in the Detroit area.
Our well-dressed family in Lathrup Village, 1965.
The Howes wearing Lathrup Beaver sweatshirts in 1967, the only year all four of us attended the same school.
On my Honda 90 at Bear Lake, Michigan, in 1968.
Gordie and Colleen with their best friends in hockey, Bill and Edna Gadsby.
Ecuador, 1969, with Marty and Gordie after I pulled in a 328-pound black marlin.
Colleen and Gordie at our Bear Lake cottage.
Number 9 with the 1970 Junior Red Wings, with Marty (Number 3) and coach Carl Lindstrom. (Hockey Hall of Fame.)
The Howe home in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, 1972.
Olympic silver medalists, 1972. Clockwise from bottom left: Dick McGlynn, Robbie Ftorek, Stu Irving and me.
Caddying for Gordie at Plum Hollow golf course in Detroit.
Coach George Armstrong holds up my new Toronto Marlboros jersey in 1972 as Marty watches. (Hockey Hall of Fame)
Three Howes: Marty, Gordie and me in Houston, 1973. We proved it was no publicity stunt. (O-Pee-Chee)
It took much of my first professional year to get comfortable. (Robert Shaver)
As a Hartford Whaler in 197980, my first NHL season. (Robert Shaver)
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