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From Bantam to Pro. In Canada, where hockey precocity is commonplace, Bobby Hull was a stick-out from the day he played his first Bantam League game, in Belleville, at the age of ten. There are seven levels of competition in Canada-Peewees, Bantams, Midgets, Juveniles, Junior B's, Junior A's and Professionals; Hull skipped the Peewees, Midgets and Juveniles. Officially. Actually, confides Pringle, who played against him in the Bantams, Bobby freelanced. When the Bantam game ended, he would tighten up his laces and join a Midget team in the next game. After that was over...
Hull can also be stellar in a Keller. "One day after a White Sox game," he says, "a bunch of us were sitting around a Michigan Avenue bar having a few, when this guy comes up and starts getting pretty obnoxious. I tell him, 'Get lost, creep,' and he looks at me and says, 'You know something, buddy? You're a -,' I reach across the table, grab his tie, give it a half-turn, and cork him one. Then I slam his head down on the table, and it breaks a couple of beer bottles...
...thing he remembers about that time was that he was constantly shoveling snow. "I was usually one of the first ones out there for a game of shinny," he says, "and it was up to the first arrivals to clear a skating area." By the time Bobby was eight, recalls Dr. Don Pringle, a childhood friend who now practices medicine in Montreal, "he had muscles rippling all over him," and Papa Hull was already spending hours on the ice, endlessly drilling his son on the technique of stick handling. "He was sometimes impatient," says Bobby, "but he liked to skate...
...back to the doc next day when we returned to Chicago and get my nose set again." He played the next night, and scored another goal, but Detroit won again to take a 3-2 lead in the best-of-seven series. Finally came the sixth game, and with it, one of the most astonishing one-man shows in hockey history. At this point, Bobby turns laconic: "They scored, and I went out and got one. Then they got another, and I got another. And so on. They eventually wore us down and won 7-4." By then, packed nose...
...basketball, in which the referee drops the puck between two opposing players to initiate play. Besides the blue center circle, eight red face-off dots are positioned at strategic points about the rink to get the puck back into action after a referee's whistle stops the game. Among the most common: the "end-zone face-off," which usually occurs after a goalie blocks a shot at the net, and the "last-play face-off," which takes place at the point where play has been stalled or the puck has flown...