Over the past few months, there has been much written and spoken about the H1N1 flu.
In a hockey sense, parallels were immediately drawn to a season a long time ago that was impacted by the flu.
The year was 1919 and the epidemic was that of what became known as the Spanish Flu. Millions died. In the hockey world, one of its victims was Joe Hall of the Montreal Canadiens. In fact, after Hall’s death the Stanley Cup final was cancelled.
Eric Zweig is our guest.
He has written a fascinated historical novel of the period called “Fever Season”. He speaks with us about that year that the flu hit, and about what happened both on and off the ice.
Eric Zweig is Managing Editor with Dan Diamond Associates (consulting editors to the National Hockey League), he has written about sports and sports history for many major publications including the Toronto Star and the Glober and Mail. He has written non-fiction sports books for young people.
At: http://conversationsontheroad.podbus.com/?p=351
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