hockey history & culture reading rec list
We Breed Lions - Rick Westhead
Call Me Indian - Fred Saskamoose
Game Misconduct - Evan F. Moore & Jashvina Shah
Burke’s Law - Bryan Burke
Men at Play - Michael A. Robidoux
Skating on Thin Ice - Martin D. Schwartz, Stu Cowan, & Walter S. DeKeseredy
Black Aces - Julian McKenzie*
The Russian Five - Keith Gave
Black Ice - Valmore James
Black Ice - George & Darril Fosty
Why I Didn't Say Anything - Sheldon Kennedy, James Grainger
Crossing the Line - Laura Robinson
Breaking the Ice - Cecil Harris
Coast to Coast - Various, John Chi-Kit Wong (editor)
Willie - Willie O'Ree, Michael McKinley
Breakaway - Tal Pinchevsky
Too Many Men On The Ice - Joanna Avery & Julie Stevens
Let Us Play - Harrison Browne & Rachel Browne
A Fly in a Pail of Milk - Herb Carnegie
Out of Play - Michael A. Messner
The Arena of Masculinity: Sports, Homosexuality, and the Meaning of Sex - Brian Pronger
Sport and Postmodern Times (Sport Culture Social Relations) - Various, Geneviève Rail (editor)
Post-Sport: Transgressing Boundaries in Physical Culture - Brian Pronger**
In Search of the Sports Bar - Lawrence A. Wenner**
Conflicted Scars - Justin Davis
Dreamer - Akim Aliu (author) Karen De la Vega (illustrator)
notes:
* - published feb 2026
** - relevant essays found within Sport and Postmodern Times