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| Posted Aug. 16, 2024- TRIGGER, Long Tailer with a Long Trailer  Photos of Roy Rogers and Company from a 1950 issue of the Toronto Star Weekly |
| Posted June 2, 2024- DOM DIMAGGIO Baseball's Greatest Outfielder  In a 1948 issue of Look Magazine sportswriter Tim Cohane postulated that Boston Red Sox center-fielder Dom DiMaggio was baseball's greatest outfielder. |
| Posted May 28, 2024- Hall of Fame sportswriter Andy O'Brien was excited about the rebirth of baseball in Vancouver in 1957. Vancouver Produces Baseball Story of ‘57  Looking for the baseball story of '57? Even if Don Larsen comes up with a "perfect" double-header, he won’t change my mind. Win, lose or draw in the Pacific Coast League this season, I’m voting for the Vancouver Mounties. |
| Posted May 19, 2024- We came across this story on hockey coaches by Andy O'Brien in a 1961 issue of Weekend Magazine out of Montreal. There’s More To "Big Time" Coaching  This may sound silly, folks, but after sitting through some 600 practices - usually closed to the general public - and more than 1,000 games in the six rinks of the National Hockey League, I'm beginning to suspect I enjoy practices more. |
| Posted May 15, 2024- In the 1950s you needed more than a cellphone to take good pictures. Louis Jaques, staff photographer for Weekend Magazine tells here of issues he had to deal with. LOUIS JAQUES: The Man Who Shoots Stars  Staff Photographer Louis Jaques who, between many other assignments, takes our pictures of hockey and football stars, has long been recognized as one of Canada's top photographers. And though Jaques swears he has no trade secrets, we're willing to bet he sneaks psychology books from the library when no one is looking. |
| Posted May 12, 2024- Robert Yoder describes the birth of Slinky in this story from the Dec. 21, 1946 issue of The Saturday Evening Post. Up Bounced a Business  The case of R. T. James and his walking spring proves that a man who will work hard and well can get someplace, thanks to a trivial little accident he is almost too busy to notice. |
| Posted May 11, 2024- Jim Proudfoot, long time Toronto sports writer, provided this portrait of Lou Fontinato in 1956. Lou Fontinato: The Rangers’ Rough Diamond  When Leapin' Lou comes on the ice, he's greeted with a mighty roar, for fans know they'll see opposition players strewn about like ten-pins |
| Posted May 9, 2024- Arthur W. Baum of The Saturday Evening Post describes a time when the production of major league baseballs was less corporate than it is now. The Great Cover-Up  If any super-Babe ever really makes good the slugger’s habitual threat to knock the cover off the ball, it is going to be a black day for the Pennsylvania town of Perkasie, population 4121. Perkasie is represented, if unnamed, at every American, National, International. AA, Texas. Southern and other league game in which the official major-league ball is used. A bit of Perkasie is on the fast ones, the floaters, the hooks, the hops. Perkasie rides from bat to fence, base to base. |
| Posted May 7, 2024- Young Glenn Hall responded well to the pressure of taking over as Detroit's regular goalie in 1955-56. GLENN HALL: Meet the Wings' New Goalie  Big things were in store for Glenn Hall when he hit Detroit's farm system and now, his apprenticeship over, he's setting a hot pace. |
| Posted May 1, 2024- Toronto Star reporter William Drylie predicted big things for Eric Nesterenko in this 1954 article. ERIC NESTERENKO: Another Conacher Coming Up?  Though observers differ in their ideas as to who Nesterenko looks like and what he will produce, all admit 'he looks NHL’ |
| Posted April 20, 2024- This story on Red Sullivan turned up in the Jan. 14 issue of the Toronto Star Weekly. RED SULLIVAN: Black Hawks' Big Bargain  This trading-est and buying-est team engineered probably its best deal in purchasing Red Sullivan, who stepped up from minor league hockey to gain recognition almost overnight as a top NHL centre |
| Posted April 14, 2024- A year or so after this story appeared in March 1962, the NHL made a rule prohibiting players from cutting the palms out of their gloves. It is often referred to as the Carl Brewer rule. CARL BREWER Reformed Bouncer of the Blue Line  WHEN Carl Thomas Brewer, the 23-year-old defenceman of the Toronto Maple Leafs, first rocketed into the National Hockey League three years ago, it was generally agreed that only his temper could keep him from becoming one of the game’s top players. The youthful Leaf had the speed, toughness and agility to make it big, but unfortunately a trigger temper produced a rash of penalties. |
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1949 Chicago Tribune | |
Toronto Star Weekly, Apr. 2, 1955 |
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