Mike Scriber is the founder of Skates & Scars and a hockey storyteller focused on the real stories behind the NHL. His work covers the moments, people, and events that have shaped the game on and off the ice.
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Pete Rose: The Double Life of Charlie Hustle Nobody attacked baseball the way Pete Rose did. Seventeen All-Star ...
Oscar Taveras: The Prospect Who Felt Like a Destiny If you followed baseball in the early 2010s, you ...
The Team That Tried to Bury Roberto Clemente The story begins in 1954, when the Brooklyn Dodgers signed ...
The Season That Defied Logic In 1985, Dwight Gooden was twenty years old and untouchable. He led the ...
A Ghost With a Four-Million-Dollar Signing Bonus In 1999, the Tampa Bay Devil Rays didn’t just draft a ...
At exactly 3 a.m. on a humid Miami night, a phone call shattered the future of baseball. José ...
Most enforcers waited for trouble. Matthew Barnaby started it. Over 14 seasons, he spent 42 hours and 42 ...
Jon Cooper was never supposed to be an NHL coach. He was supposed to be in a courtroom. ...
Mike Danton made the NHL, then tried to have someone killed. The hitman was a cop wearing a ...
Todd Bertuzzi didn’t just end a man’s career over a legal hit, he exposed something the league didn’t ...
