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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Seventh printing. Inscribed and signed by the author on the half-title page. Roy was a highly touted freshman forward on the Boston University ice hockey team in 1995 when his career as a hockey player ended eleven seconds into his first shift, in a collision with the boards that left him almost totally paralyzed from the neck down. He went on to get his degree and to found the Travis Roy Foundation before succumbing to complications of surgery at age 45 in 2020. The book is unmarked; slight spine slant; corners sharp, spine ends bumped. The dust jacket is not price-clipped (original price $20.00); Brodart protected. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. 1st Edition. Very good condition book, inscribed by author on the flyleaf, in a VG- condition dustjacket. DJ has a small sticker pull toward the top. [2004]. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Later printing. x, [2], 236 pages. Illustrations. Signed with sentiment by Travis Roy on half-title page. Travis Matthew Roy (born April 17, 1975 in Augusta, Maine, USA) is a philanthropist and former American college ice hockey player. Roy attended Yarmouth High School as a freshman, then transferred to nearby North Yarmouth Academy (NYA) in order to pursue an athletic scholarship. Roy transferred again and graduated from Tabor Academy and received an ice hockey scholarship to Boston University. On October 20, 1995 - just eleven seconds into his first-ever shift for Boston University men's ice hockey team - a 20-year-old Roy slid head-first into the boards after University of North Dakota player Mitch Vig avoided Roy's check. The awkward impact with the boards resulted in Roy's cracking his fourth and fifth vertebra and leaving him a quadriplegic. Since the accident, he has regained movement in his right arm. Derived from a Kirkus review: The story of an athlete whose career was cut short by a devastating injury told with unusual honesty and feeling. Twenty-year-old Roy was eleven seconds into his first collegiate hockey game as a Boston University freshman when a crash into the boards broke his neck. Assisted by Sports Illustrated writer Swift, Roy describes his growing-up years as the son of a hockey coach in Maine and his fierce love of the sport that dominated his life from an early age. His dreams of making the US Olympic team and then the National Hockey League ended on October 20, 1995, when the fourth vertebra in his spine was shattered, leaving him a quadriplegic. A year later he was back at Boston University, starting again as a freshman, this time in a wheelchair, struggling desperately to fit in. What distinguishes Roy's story is the degree to which he lets the reader share his sadness. The victories are heartbreakingly tiny ones, and there are more tears than cheers.