They Don't Play Hockey In Heaven A Dream, A Team, And My Comeback Season

Ken Baker wanted nothing more than to play ice hockey with the prosuntil a brain tumor cut his dreams short while in college. After surgery and several years of rehab, Baker, who in high school was a top prospect for the U.S. Olympic team, put his successful journalism career on hold to attempt the seemingly impossible: a comeback. He moved away from his family to become the third-string goalie for the Bakersfield Condors, an AA-level minor-league team in the dusty oil town of Bakersfield, California. At the age of thirty-one, Baker became the oldest rookie in all of pro-hockey, facing 1000-m.p.h. slap shots and long bus rides, hostile fans and cheap motel rooms, body bruises and battle-worn teammates. Ken Baker is the West Coast Executive Editor for Us Weekly. He has written for ESPN the Magazine, Premiere, The Washington Post and the San Francisco Chronicle. He also appears regularly as an entertainment expert on E! Entertainment Television, VH-1, and several syndicated television shows. A native of Buffalo, New York, Baker also is author of the critically acclaimed Man Made: A Memoir of My Body. He currently lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two kids. He has all his teeth.Baker, Ken is the author of 'They Don't Play Hockey In Heaven A Dream, A Team, And My Comeback Season', published 2004 under ISBN 9781592286058 and ISBN 1592286054.