The Slap Maxwell Story (sometimes seen in print as The "Slap" Maxwell Story) is a situation comedy broadcast in the United States by ABC as part of its 1987-88 lineup.It stars Dabney Coleman as "Slap" Maxwell, an egocentric sportswriter for a newspaper called The Ledger, somewhere in the American Southwest. The Ledger was a very old-fashioned newspaper—Slap still composed his column, "Slap Shots," on a typewriter) -- and Slap was a very old-fashioned guy.