The break away : the inside story of the Wirtz family business and the Chicago Blackhawks / Bryan Smith ; foreword by Tony Esposito.

[The book] tells the remarkable story of how Rocky Wirtz, scion of a Chicago business and sports dynasty, defied his family and skeptics to take the Chicago Blackhawks from "worst to first." "Breakaway (noun): 1. Ice hockey. A sudden rush down the ice by a [hockey] player or players in an attempt to...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:	Second to none: Chicago stories.
Main Author:	Smith, Bryan, 1961- (Author)
Other Authors:	Esposito, Tony (Hockey player) (writer of foreword.)
Language:	English
Published:	Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, [2018]
Series:	Second to none: Chicago stories.
Subjects:	Wurtz family. Wirtz, Rocky, > 1952- Chicago Blackhawks (Hockey team) Businesspeople > Biography. Hockey team owners > Biography. Businesspeople. Hockey team owners. Biographies.
Genre:	Biography. Biographies.
Physical Description:	xv, 205 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Variant Title:	Breakaway
Format:	Book

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