Open Net: A Professional Amateur in the World of Big-Time Hockey Audiobook (Free)

George Plimpton takes to the snow using the Boston Bruins in this memorable family portrait of the rough-and-tumble globe of professional hockey, recorded and today featuring a foreword from Denis Leary.

In OPEN World wide web, George Plimpton takes to the ice as goalie for his beloved Boston Bruins. After signing a release keeping the Bruins blameless if he should talk with injury or death, he survives a harrowing, apparently eternal 5 minutes in an exhibition game against the always-tough Philadelphia Flyers.

With reflections on such hockey greats as Wayne Gretzky, Bobby Orr, and Eddie Shore, OPEN NET reaches once a celebration of the thrills and grace of the best sport on ice and a probing meditation into the hopes and worries of every man.