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conversations.value: Give me a description for a book titled Number Four Bobby Orr about Through with the genre: Sports & Outdoors, Biographies.
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conversations.value: the author opened its doors in 1954. The company has a massive international staff of the highest regarded sports writers and photographers, and has widely become recognized globally as the most respected voice in sports journalism. Through its magazines and website, the author reaches over 21 million sports enthusiasts weekly -- that's a lot of hockey fans.
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conversations.value: Give me the first five paragraphs for this book.. Start with the sentence 'Number Four Bobby Orr
  So why hadn't Eagleson accepted that offer? When that question was raised last week, Eagleson threatened to step down from his podium and "tweak" a Boston sportscaster in the nose, adding that "You give me a sweet pain in the—'.
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conversations.value: Number Four Bobby Orr
  So why hadn't Eagleson accepted that offer? When that question was raised last week, Eagleson threatened to step down from his podium and "tweak" a Boston sportscaster in the nose, adding that "You give me a sweet pain in the—." In fact, at the time of that Boston offer, Eagleson also was deeply involved in Orr negotiations with the now defunct Minnesota Fighting Saints of the WHA, who publicly were offering Orr $6.5 million for 10 years but privately were practically penniless. Then, while Eagleson was playing Boston against Minnesota in the media, Orr's left knee came undone again and he had Operation No. 4. Boston withdrew its offer and suspended negotiations until Orr joined the Bruins lineup for the first time early in November.
  Orr played only 10 games before the knee locked again and sent him back to the hospital for Operation No. 5. That, as it turned out, ended his season. Obviously wary about Orr's physical condition, Boston reduced its offer to the $1.75 million for five years. Eagleson called Boston's final offer a "joke," among other things, but managing director Harry Sinden of the Bruins said, "The Jacobses didn't know what Bobby Orr could do. They just followed sound business practices."
  And so it was that on June 1, the day when Orr's five-year contract with the Bruins officially expired and he became a free agent, Eagleson sent the following cable to 30 NHL and WHA teams, excluding only the Bruins: "As of today Bobby Orr is a free agent. If you are interested in acquiring his services for the future, please contact me at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Montreal, on June 7th. We are setting a July 1 deadline. Yours, Alan Eagleson."
  The line formed inside Suite 1200 of the Queen E. The Detroit Red Wings were in one room, the Kansas City Scouts in another. Los Angeles Kings owner Jack Kent Cooke was talking to Eagleson on one telephone, and St. Louis Blues general manager-coach Emile Francis was on hold. Chicago Black Hawks general manager Tommy Ivan was everywhere. Sinden stood alongside the bar in the suite and cracked, "Hey, Al, you get me up here to talk a deal, and you've only got half a beer in the whole place."
  Orr, who remained in his usual seclusion at his hockey camp in Orillia, Ontario, called Eagleson and advised him to warn all potential buyers that he considered himself to be "damaged goods." Later, after talking with Orr again, Eagleson announced that Orr would sign with St. Louis or Chicago or possibly retire for a year of therapy. Both St. Louis and Chicago offered Orr the unconditional, caveat emptor type of contract that Eagleson had demanded. Eagleson also said that Orr would soon check into Toronto General Hospital for a thorough examination of his left knee. "Bobby Orr will not be available for any comment," he said. Was Eagleson open to questions? "Go ahead, ask your — questions," he said with a snarl.
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conversations.value: But even a hobbled Orr might be enough. After all, the Smythe Division is so feeble that it can be won by any team that just ties all its games. In fact, with the All-Star break coming up, not one of the division's five teams is at.500, and neither Minnesota, Vancouver nor Colorado has won a third of its games. Yet one of them will be rewarded with a playoff berth. Chicago, closing in on division-leading St. Louis, has a good shot at the championship. Which goes to show that a million-dollar line can give way to a million-dollar coaching staff without much being lost — so long as one of the coaches is also a part-time player named Orr.
  Despite this resolve, it was by no means certain that Orr, at 30, could avoid the athletic scrap heap. Considered the best defenseman in NHL history, Orr is also the only defenseman ever to lead the league in scoring, which he did twice when he was with the Boston Bruins. The second occasion, the 1974-75 season, also turned out to be his last full season. Orr had already undergone three operations on his left knee, and after he was operated on twice more — and played just 10 games — in the 1975-76 season, the Bruins treated him as damaged goods in contract talks, prompting him to sign a five-year, $3 million contract with Chicago. The gimpy Orr played just 20 games for the Hawks, last appearing on January 27, 1977, when he skated less than three minutes in a 1-1 tie against the Canucks in Vancouver. Three months later Dr. John Palmer of Toronto removed bone chips and loose cartilage from the knee — operation No. 6 — and put Orr's chances of playing hockey again at "one in 10."
  The knee responsible for that gloomy prognosis is crisscrossed with so many scars that, in the absence of a map, Orr himself cannot tell which one is the result of which operation. With virtually no cartilage left to cushion the joint, Orr lacks strength when pushing off on skates, making it hard for him to pivot or to execute quick starts and stops. Even if he somehow defies Dr. Palmer's forbidding odds and succeeds in his comeback, Orr concedes that his days of dazzling end-to-end rushes are over. "I got caught up-ice enough when I had good knees," he says. "I sure better not try it now. But if my knee holds up, I still think I can make a contribution to the Hawks."
  With that "if" hanging heavily in the air, Orr was in the starting lineup for the Black Hawks' preseason opener in Chicago Stadium against the Montreal Canadiens a fortnight ago. As he skated out to center ice, the 9,126 fans gave him an ovation. "I had the jitters," Orr says. "It was the way I felt when I went to training camp my rookie year."
  Orr worked the power play and occasional odd shifts against Montreal — Chicago beat the Stanley Cup champions 7–5 — and did the same in two subsequent defeats, 4-2 to the Canadiens in Ottawa and 4-3 to the Toronto Maple Leafs in Moncton. Playing cautiously, he appeared awkward at times, as though he were some tousle-haired imposter trying to ape the real Bobby Orr's familiar bowlegged stride. Yet there were also bona fide flashes of the Orr of yore. Although he didn't score in the three games, he was credited with two assists, one on a slick between-the-legs pass against Toronto that set up a goal by Cliff Koroll. He got off other crisp passes against the Leafs, worked the give-and-go and stirred the crowd with a head fake that left Toronto center Don Ashby completely flummoxed.
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conversations.value: He and Cherry had a bet on the game, $100. That night Orr's side won 6-1, and Cherry gave it up at the handshake. "Money goes to money, you see that?" he said.
  And then Orr, icon and agent and coach all in one, raised the bill over his head and waved it in triumph. Thousands roared. Thousands laughed. Their Bobby was back, no limp, and eyes shining. It felt perfect, the way any church does when the ceremony goes off without a hitch and the light streams just so.