• Tales from the Chicago Blackhawks Locker Room

  • A Collection of the Greatest Blackhawks Stories Ever Told
  • By: Harvey Wittenberg
  • Narrated by: Tom Underwood
  • Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
  • 3.7 out of 5 stars (14 ratings)

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Tales from the Chicago Blackhawks Locker Room

By: Harvey Wittenberg
Narrated by: Tom Underwood
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Editorial reviews

Longtime P.A. announcer Harvey Wittenberg's voice, endearingly described in Bruce Wolf's foreword as a "reassuring Gregorian chant", presided over 40-plus years of Blackhawk history. In Tales from the Chicago Blackhawks Locker Room, Wittenberg's unique perspective, encyclopedic knowledge, and exclusive access to coaches and players form a captivating narrative of a storied franchise.

With his smooth, effortless performance, Tom Underwood transports the listener to center ice, and his full, booming voice does justice to one of the most revered in-stadium announcers in NHL history.

Publisher's summary

Legends of the Blackhawks share their greatest stories - newly updated!

As one of the NHL’s original six teams, the Chicago Blackhawks have given their fans millions of heart-stopping memories, thousands of unforgettable stories, and five Stanley Cup Championships. Now fans of this indomitable team get to relive it all in this newly updated edition of Tales from the Chicago Blackhawks Locker Room. With all the charm and wit of a sportscaster who has been covering the Blackhawks for over sixty years, Harvey Wittenberg shares the greatest Hawks stories, including their 2010 Stanley Cup title.

©2003, 2012 Harvey Wittenberg (P)2012 Audible, Inc.
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Terrible

Was any effort made at all in learning the correct pronunciation of most of the names and awards?! Not some…not a few…but nearly every name for the love of Stanley! At first it was laughable. Then irritating. Will NEVER purchase another Underwood narrated book again…or should I say “ageen”?

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Just Skip

As a diehard Hawks fan, skip this book. The title is misleading, and is one of the worst audible I have ever read. Why? 1.) The book is terribly repetitive-some stories were repeated at least three times. 2.) Terrible organization. It isn’t organized by era, players, teams, etc. just so random. 3.) The stories were short and lame. Often, they were a sentence or two, and not deep. 4.) The most unforgivable thing about this book was the player name MISPRONUNCIATIONS (ex. Toews, Chelios, and Hossa). No one cared to correct him! Just skip the book, and you will be glad. So disappointing.

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Bad Narrator!

Narrator needs to learn correct pronunciation of the names of the players. It was very annoying!

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Pronunciation was not great.

The narrated should have taken the time to learn the correct pronunciation for names and awards. It was hard to decide who he was talking about with such terrible pronunciation.

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Poor production

Would you try another book from Harvey Wittenberg and/or Tom Underwood?

I would buy another book from wittenberg. The book was just his memoirs and stories aimed at Blackhawk fans. It's nothing thought provoking, its just fun stories for fans.
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What didn’t you like about Tom Underwood’s performance?

I will avoid Tom Underwood. I've never listened to a book that mispronounced more names and did so consistently. I would think that the person responsible for narrating the book would have taken time to learn that the name of one of the best players in the NHL currently is named Jonathon Toews, pronounced TAYS and not TOES. And he does this over and over with many player's name - and heaven help us all on the French-Canadian names he butchers

Do you think Tales from the Chicago Blackhawks Locker Room needs a follow-up book? Why or why not?

sure...with a different narrator

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Toews aka Toes

Great story and good narrator for the most part. His biggest flaw is mispronouncing Toews' name. It's not toes and that ruined it for me.

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