About seven years ago, or back when Brady Shaw was a freshman at the University of Vermont, his mother – Mary Shaw – received a phone call one night from a bar. No, Brady wasn’t in trouble and didn’t need a ride home. But he did need his mom to, once again, confirm a fact for his new college hockey teammates: That he was, indeed, the central figure in a series of children’s books that they had all read growing up.
The series is called “Brady Brady” and features a young boy so obsessed by hockey that everyone had to call his name twice – “Brady! BRADY!” – in order to get his attention.
Brady and his faithful pup, Hattrick, have been entertaining readers since 2001 when Mary Shaw launched the series in an effort to get her young son reading.
But back to the bar and a scene that had, by now, become familiar to Mary Shaw.
“When (Brady) went to the University of Vermont, his teammates…
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