Book description
A history of the Boston Bruins in pictures, newly revised and updated
to cover the spectacular 2010-2011 Stanley Cup-Winning Season!
A pictorial history of the Boston Bruins, Black and Gold is a
tribute to one of the NHL's Original Six teams and hockey's most
popular franchises. A storied team with a long and rich history
spanning almost ninety years, the Bruins have been home to some of the
greatest names in the sport, including legends like Ray Bourque, Cam
Neely, Terry O'Reilly, Don Cherry, Bobby Orr, and Joe Thornton.
Featuring four decades of pictures from long-time team photographer
Steve Babineau, and accompanying text by broadcaster Rob Simpson,
Black and Gold documents the six-time Stanley Cup winning
team, including magic moments from the past, star players and coaches,
Bruins goalies, grinders, and the old Boston Garden.
- Revised to commemorate the 2011 Winter Classic and the team's
epic Stanley Cup victory
- Packed with 32 all-new pages of iconic images and insightful commentary
- Includes a Foreword by hockey great Don Cherry
This epic collection, featuring many never-before-seen photographs,
is guaranteed to bring back memories for every Bruins fan who bleeds
black and gold.
Rob Simpson is an established hockey reporter,
commentator and writer. He has written a number of magazine and
newspaper articles about the game on and off the ice, and also penned
the 2005 book Between the Lines, about the Hall-of-Fame career
of long-time NHL linesman Ray “Scampy” Scapinello. A 25-year veteran
of the broadcasting business, Simpson recently spent three years as a
Boston Bruins TV program host and rink-side reporter for the New
England Sports Network. He also produced and hosted Hockey
Odyssey on the NHL Network. For four years, Simpson produced and
hosted Maple Leaf America on Leafs TV in Toronto. His favorite
and frequent pastime is travel, which is for fun and business.
Presently a Delaware family man off-season, he's taken a career path
less traveled, with previous stops in Alabama, Florida, Australia,
Hawaii, and Idaho.
Photographer Steve Babineau has spent the last 35 years
accumulating hundreds of thousands of images of the Boston Bruins,
Celtics, and Red Sox, as well as special event and concert photos from
the Boston Garden and the TD Banknorth Garden. Hockey being his first
love, the former high school player has dedicated himself to capturing
the great moments on and off the ice for the Bruins and the NHL in
Boston and beyond. H is images have appeared in countless magazines,
yearbooks, on hockey cards and promotional items, and on-line. Babs
currently runs Sports Action Photography with his son Brain, who began
taking photos with dad two decades ago. Babineau resides in
Massachusetts during the hockey season, for a little while longer
anyway, and in Florida during the off-season, where he and his family
enjoy the sunshine and frequenting Disney.
