Gross Misconduct: Spinner Spencer (Toronto Maple Leafs)

-----Gross Misconduct: The Life of Spinner Spencer -(re Toronto Maple Leafs, Buffalo Sabres, NHL)- by Martin O'Malley, Viking / Penguin Books Canada, Toronto, 1988. Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Plus. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Black boards with red lettering on spine, headband, (ix) 310 pages plus 8 pages of b & w photos, Near Fine condition with publishers mark on top edge, dust jacket is in Very Good Plus condition with minor edge wear. "Spinner Spencer had a 10 year career in the NHL. He played with brute force and instinct, his nickname "Spinner" a comment on his skating style. After finishing his hockey career, Spencer drifted into seedy obscurity - crashing with friends, dodging arrest warrants for drunken driving. Then he achieved a different kind of notoriety: On the night of January 18, 1987, he was arrested in Florida & charged with a murder that had been committed five years earlier on an isolated dirt road in West Palm Beach. The victim, a 32 year old real estate salesman named Michael Dalfo, had been shot twice in the head and left to die in a muddy clearing." YE011496BZ