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Seahawk is a history of a championship New England town hockey team composed of WWII veterans, and a memoir of a boy's lifelong connection to hockey. At the age of fourteen, the author became the Seahawks' goaltender. The Rye, NH Seahawks were a dominant club, and played for a New Hampshire Class B state championship and a New England Class B championship in the venerable Boston Garden. Explores aging while playing contact sports.

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Former Boston Bruin -s Seahawk is a wonderfully entertaining look at vintage amateur hockey in post-WWII New England. Bruce Valley's inside look at the challenges of both goaltending and the aging process in sports holds nothing back. Living as I do on the New Hampshire seacoast and skating on its ponds with my children and surfing buddies, this book brings home to me how the important things in life do not change and reminds me how very cool life must have been in the long-ago era Seahawk describes.--Former Bosto

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A former naval officer, test pilot, Washington speechwriter, and aerospace executive, Bruce Valley is the author of Seahawk: Confessions of an Old Hockey Goalie and Rye Harbor: Poems of the New Hampshire Seacoast. He lives in Rye, New Hampshire, and writes about commonplace matters in our lives, some unseen and unheard, those things which touch our hearts.

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