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Bit of a digression on this point but your opinion on Klosterman is exactly why I love Isaac Asimov’s non-fiction so much; even more than his science fiction. He managed to turn my interest to topics other people always kept it away from. Hockey is actually where I got my handle. When I was a kid I hated physical sports. I was very good at playing it, I just never had an interest in it. Not out of an intrinsic dislike but was never properly acquainted with it by someone who could relate it to me, and it wasn’t until I was a teenager when that began to change and I’d play sports outside frequently with family, friends and neighbor kids across the street.
Anyway, one day we went to play Basketball on the black top at a church very close to where I lived. When we got there there were a bunch of kids playing street hockey. They asked if we wanted to play (we never tried it before), but we agreed. I played goaltender (and was pretty good). One of the kids randomly remarked at one point, “You play like Tretiak.” I had no idea what he was talking about and he asked if I ever watched the Disney movie Miracle (the one where the US hockey team defeated the Soviets) and I said no. Later we watched it and he goes, “You play really good defense like that guy (Vladislav Tretiak).” And among my friends and neighborhood kids, it stuck ever since. To this day, they will still call me “Tre,” or “Tret” when they see me. There’s only one single person I’ve ever met in my entire life who when he heard what others called me he looked at me and said “Hockey?” I had one of the biggest grins when he said that. He knew the reference.
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