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Pride on the Mount: More Than a Game
by John Gillooly
Product Group: Book
Publisher: The Lyons Press (2005-11-01)
ISBN: 1592288340
EAN: 9781592288342
Dewy Decimal #: 796.96262097451
Paperback: 320 pages
SKU: 070516004
Condition: Collectible: Very Go
Comments: This Signed copy is in excellent condition. First Edition (full line of numbers 1-10) Nice, clean, tight text & spine. No markings, highlights, underlining, tears, creases. No dustjacket. Clean softcover. Light shelf/edge wear. A fantastic copy at an affordable price. (E93)
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Customer Reviews
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Enjoyable - if not timely or proofread
Rating  (3)
Date: 2006-03-17
1 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
I've read dozens of books about great hockey teams, coaches, and players and there is tremendous variety in their quality. I actually found Pride on the Mount to be very enjoyable to read with a good amount of action and personal information. What I found disappointing, though, is how old this material was. Written in 97/98 you can almost hear the threatening phone calls from Gillooly's publisher to get this thing finished seven years later! If you thought those seven years were spent proofreading and checking facts, you would be very wrong. The typos and grammatical errors are the worst I've seen in print since spell-check became available. As others have pointed out, there are also a lot of technical errors.
Still, though, I thought the book was worth reading and certainly recommend it for anyone involved in amateur hockey. I don't understand the concerns expressed here by a Mount parent as I thought the account was overall pretty positive. Anyone in youth hockey knows that even the most storied programs have warts. I frankly would have been turned off if the book hadn't addressed them. I'd be thrilled if my kid could participate in the program I read about!
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Fact or fiction
Rating  (1)
Date: 2005-12-30
2 out of 6 customers found this reveiw helpful
I am a parent of one of the 1998 MOUNY hockey team menbers. I have written a detailed letter to John Gillooly which expresses my anger for what he has done to the glory years of my son and his teammtes. For purposes of edification and space limitations for this review, here are my closing two paragraph which sum up my feelings, as well as the feelings of many other parents and players, of that great year in MOUNT hockey.
"It was my son's intention to give me a copy of MOUNT PRIDE, autographed by coaches Bill and Dave, as a Christmas present, However, after he read many of the misquotations and inaccurate information about himself and his teammates, he asked my wife not to ever let me get my hands on the book. He knows how passionate I am about his years at the MOUNT and could foresee my discontent if I were to ever read it. I imagine that someday I will calm down and read it but, as for now, all I feel is that you have taken the glory years from a great group of high school kids and tarnished them all with misinformation and misquotations, using statements and events out of context, your own anti-MOUNT perceptions and opinions and, in my estimatiion, filled 302 pages with yellow journalism bordering on libel, the mortal sin of any writer.
I am certain that each opposing player, every parent of those players, and every ex-MOUNTIE who transferred because he couldn't endure the pain for gain MOUNT mentality, will gloat over reading this book. For us MOUNTIES, Mr. Gillooly, you have done us a grave injustice. You took a rare, behind the scenes opportunity to truly glorify MOUNT hockey and turned your findings into a supermarket scandal sheet filled with page after page of misinformation and personal opinion. Shame on you."
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Pride on the Mount: More Than a game
Rating (3)
Date: 2005-12-26
3 out of 4 customers found this reveiw helpful
I greatly enjoyed Mr. Gillooly's portrayal of Mt. St. Charles hockey. I am a teacher and high school coach, and I can relate to much of the story. As an American of French-Canadian descent, I appreciated the demographic information he shared. Despite my overall positive reaction to this book, I found numerous errors that proved distracting. For example, Gillooly misspelled the names of at least two people , the Minnesota North Stars' Lou Nanne and NHL forward Mike Grier. In addition, he referred to the New England Independent Schools League as a league of older players. In fact, as a teacher/coach in the ISL, I know that these schools do not have PGs. He referred to Belmont Hill School as "Belmont High" and "Belmont Hill Prep", and St. Sebastian's as "St. Sebastian's Prep". Also, regarding Catholic Memorial, Mr. Gillooly states that the school is located in West Roxbury, a "suburb of Boston". In fact, West Roxbury is part of Boston. In addition, in the epilogue he refers to JFK Jr.'s death in the summer of 2000 when it actually was a year earlier.
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Typos galore!
Rating (3)
Date: 2005-12-16
1 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
As a Woonsocket native living away for almost 30 years, I enjoyed the book because it brought back memories of the WHS-MSC rivalries of the 60's, and of playing hockey on the rinks at Cass Park growing up.
I found the constant degradation of the City of Woonsocket as pretty crass.
I was extremely dissapointed with the number of typos contained in the book. Numerous words stuck in sentences where they did not belong, misspelled words, words used in improper context, etc. They became a distraction in reading the book.
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AWESOME
Rating  (5)
Date: 2005-12-02
4 out of 4 customers found this reveiw helpful
A great read about how a coach has motivated a generation of young players to give 100 percent every day, not just on game-day. It's a book every high school sports coach should read. I'm using it for my sports psychology class.
There's also an interesting sub-story on how the parents of a high school superstar, who are concerned about their son's education, deal with professional agents who want the kid to turn pro right out of high school.
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