Four nights earlier, a crew-cut 18-year-old defenseman named Bobby Orr took the ice at Boston Garden and had an assist to help the Bruins open the season with a 6-2 win against the Detroit Red Wings.

That was a big goal. Number 4, Bobby Orr, is 65 now and long retired. And the famously shy superstar has decided the time has come to tell his story. In Orr's new book, "the word that comes up ...

If, like me, you grew up as a Bobby Orr fan, you probably used only one strand of tape on your stick blade and went barefoot in your skates (man, did that ever make them smell!). In his new book ...

She is also the author of the hockey-themed books The Boy in Number Four and Jay Versus the Saxophone of Doom. Bobby Orr is a former professional ice hockey player, widely considered to be ...

So much of the book on Bobby Orr never changes. He was born with a perpetual smile, and he remains ever polite, gracious, still with the charming humility of a schoolboy despite those character ...

It's not that Bobby Orr has been a recluse since he retired ... wonderfully everywhere as he makes the rounds to promote his book, Orr: My Story, which is out today. An excerpt will appear on ...

Orr remembers the moment well – the joy on the Hall of Famer’s face is woven into the sport’s fabric – but as he explains in his new book Bobby: My Story in Pictures, a photo differs from ...

He wrote the book, a copy of which the Globe received ... beaming in his Bruins sweater, the Bobby Orr edition. “The greatest hockey player in the world, knowing he would get no recognition ...

I can't imagine Bobby Orr sitting down in an ESPN studio to talk about this book. I can imagine him sitting down with Ellen, or Oprah if she still had her show, and doing so. And saying things ...

He then asked for the names of all the kids in the picture. Orr’s book “Bobby” had just been released and he wanted to make sure the kids each had a copy. “He takes out a pen and writes ...

Stephen Brunt's book, Searching For Bobby Orr, is the next best thing to the official Bobby Orr biography, which is reportedly five years away. Brunt’s book is a big bestseller, cashing in on th ...

The major exception to this was Bobby Orr. Though Orr would probably ... This was because Orr, as Ken Dryden put in his book, The Game, altered what was believed to be possible.