The Making of Slap Shot

JONATHON JACKSON 's journalism career began in his hometown of Owen Sound, Ontario, where he was far too young to see Slap Shot at the Roxy Theatre in the summer of 1977. Jackson worked as a general assignment news and sports reporter at the Owen Sound Sun Times daily newspaper for 16 years, and was part of a three-man team that won a Western Ontario Newspaper Award for spot news coverage of a deadly tainted water crisis in 2000. An article he wrote about Owen Sound hockey legend Pat McReavy was cited as an honorable mention in The Best American Sports Writing 2009 . Jackson's byline has appeared in many newspapers across Canada, including the National Post , the Montreal Gazette , the Ottawa Citizen , the Calgary Herald , the Edmonton Journal and the Hamilton Spectator . He is also a freelance writer who has written about a variety of topics, including news, sports, entertainment and history, for Maclean's magazine, The Hockey News , OHA Blueline , and several other publications. He lives in Owen Sound with his family.

Foreword. Prologue. Chapter 1 Entertainment for the Whole Family! Chapter 2 The Toughest Team in the Federal League. Chapter 3 Folk Heroes. Chapter 4 Finding a Buyer. Chapter 5 The Casting Process. Chapter 6 The Sory on That Dog. Chapter 7 Believing Your Freaking Eyes. Chapter 8 Letting 'Em Know You're There. Chapter 9 Right Back Where We Started From. Chapter 10 Violent, Bloody and Thoroughly Revolting. Chapter 11 We All Saw it With Our Own Eyes. Chapter 12 Still Putting on the Foil. Chapter 13 A Life of Its Own. Chapter 14 Defending the Honor of Charlestown. Epilogue. Acknowledgments. Index.