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A memoir tracking a child's worship of sportswriters, Portrait of a Hockey Scribe is a cautionary tale about getting exactly what you want - for Joyce, a seat in Maple Leaf Gardens' press box.
Joyce spares himself no embarrassment in cataloging his persistently humbling beginnings - from washing out in journalism school to working a dead-end job at a tabloid. After quitting the business and working as the Shamrock Tavern's doorman, Joyce gets back in the game writing on spec for a sports monthly. The apprenticeship was rife with blunders, but it also landed him lunch with King Clancy and Wendel Clark at the Gardens and a private audience in the executive office of the new NHL commissioner Gary Bettman. In a few short years, The Globe and Mail hired Joyce as its hockey columnist even though he had only ever seen a half dozen live NHL games.
This book takes readers behind the scenes: with Larry Murphy, when he was Leafs fans' scapegoat, and...