Jonesy: Put Your Head Down and Skate: The Improbable Career of Keith Jones

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Product Description No one in the history of Philadelphia Sports has made a successful career off of being an average player better than Keith Jones. The improbable hockey career of Jonsey started in 1992, when he was with the Washington Capitals. After a brief stint in Colorado, Keith was traded to Philadelphia, where is hard work, dirty play and colorful personality made him one of the more popular players in recent history. Jonsey is the story of Keith s career in the league as well as all of the interesting stories he accumulated over the course of his career, playing with some of the leagues best players in the last 15 years, including Peter Forsberg, Joe Sakic, Mark Recchi and Eric Lindros. The book will include a forward written by Hall of Fame defense-man Ray Bourque. Review The book, Jonesy: Put Your Head Down And Skate, is a hockey memoir by former Capital, Avalanche and Flyers player Keith Jones, now a radio personality in Philadelphia and an analyst with Versus. I've always liked Jones, on the ice as a gritty player and on the tube as a clean-cut, well-spoken broadcaster. I look forward to games with his intermission commentary because he knows what he's talking about and looks comfortable on the air. As for the book, it traces his extremely improbable rise through the lower Junior ranks (he never played Major Junior) into college at Western Michigan and then on to the Baltimore Skipjacks, a now-defunct AHL affiliate of the Washington Capitals. The Capitals drafted Keith in 1988. As everyone knows, Jones made the Capitals squad and began a fairly lengthy NHL career from that point. In the fall of 1996, Jones was traded to the Avalanche. This, of course, was my favorite part of the book, and he provides a number of interesting little insights into his former teammates. The book is full of excellent anecdotes from Jones' improbable career, and the book really gets going once he reaches the Flyers, a few years and a serious knee injury after being traded to the Avalanche. His battle with a botched ACL surgery makes an engaging story, and you really start to empathize with him. Well, at least I do, since I had knee surgery in April and my leg is still not back to normal. I'm no professional ice hockey player, but I feel his pain. --milehighhockey blog About the Author After injuries cut short his career, Jonesy started work on the 610 WIP-AM morning show where he became one of the shows more like-able personalities. In addition to his job at WIP, Keith serves as the studio analyst for the Flyers post game show and on the NHL s national broadcasts on the Versus Network. He was recently named as the Flyers lead color commentator for this upcoming season. In addition to all that, Keith still finds the time to grow corn on his Shamong, NJ farm. During his career in the NHL, Keith recorded 117 goals and 141 assists for 258 points. John Buccigross started at ESPN in 1996, prior to the launch of ESPNews. John currently covers the NHL for the network, as well as anchoring SportsCenter and baseball tonight. When ESPN broadcasted the NHL, John served as the in studio host for NHL Tonight. He also writes a weekly hockey column for ESPN.com