Wayne Gretzky

The first time Wayne started skating was at the age of two. From the start, Wayne had been a natural on his skates. There was nothing he'd rather been doing. Wayne's life had revolved around hockey, he watched it on television and spent every spare minute in the hockey rink practicing. By the age of five Wayne was tired of practicing and wanted to join a real team, though none of the areas would take on a five year old, despite his obvious skills. He had to wait untill he was six to join the Brantford atoms leauge for kids ten and under. When he finally joined he could barely fit into his uniform. Wayne was a scrappy kid where all of the other children were much bigger than him. The first year was tough, only scoring one goal, though the following years he was putting up unreal numbers. People had started saying he was a chid prodigy with tons of publicity. Many of the other parents would boo him while playing. He and his family decided to move to a different town where he would try to keep a low profile and he did while fitting in quite nicely. At the age of thirteen he was selected to represent Canada in Quebec where he would win the cup. At the age of seventeen Wayne had become the youngest player ever to play in the NHL. From then on he had dominated the league with many records that have been demolished. The "Great Gretzky" had then became the greatest hockey player of all time.While reading this book the skills I used were visualization and determining the importance.The author who wrote this book was Mat Doeden.I liked this book because it was very interesting to read about Wayne Gretzkys life.