Turn a meteor method returning a single object into a context for handlebar

In the basic leaderboard example on meteor.com there is a method called selected_name.

  Template.leaderboard.selected_name = function () {
     var player = Players.findOne(Session.get("selected_player"));
     return player && player.name;
   };
 
   {{#if selected_name}}
   <div class="details">
     <div class="name">{{selected_name}}</div>
     <input type="button" class="inc" value="Give 5 points" />
   </div>
   {{/if}}
 

Instead I would like to return the entire player object and then have that object be treated as a context by handlebar. I wish I could say this:

  Template.leaderboard.selected_person = function () {
     var player = Players.findOne(Session.get("selected_player"));
     return player || false;
   };
 
   {{#if selected_person}}
   <div class="details">
     <div class="name">{{name}}</div>
     <input type="button" class="inc" value="Give 5 points" />
   </div>
   {{/if}}
 

The #if block above does not actually work in meteor. The #if statement is just evaluating the selected_person method and the nested {{name}} does absolutely nothing. I would like to know if it is possible to write a method so that the returned object can be used as the context of an #if block.

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