This is the ultimate book for every Toronto Maple Leafs' fan, published to celebrate the 75th anniversary of English Canada's greatest hockey club. Illustrated with almost 300 historic and contemporary photographs, Maple Leaf Legends focuses on the greatest players to wear the blue and white since 1927. Special emphasis is placed on Hall-of-Famers and the players who led the Leafs to 11 Stanley Cup victories. The most dramatic moments in Leaf history are traced through eight significant eras, with in-depth profiles of more than 70 of the greatest players as well as anecdotes, statistics and trivia. Profiles of recent and current players, coaches and managers bring the history up to the modern era with supplementary essays by Frank Orr, Jim O'Leary, Mike McInley, Gare Joyce and others.
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Mike Leonetti is the author of two bestselling children's books, My Leafs Sweater and The Greatest Goal, as well as The Game We Knew: Hockey in the Fifties and its companion volumes Hockey in the Sixties and Hockey in the Seventies. His first book was Shooting for Glory: The Paul Henderson Story.
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When Conn Smythe and his partners bought the Toronto St. Patrick's NHL franchise on February 14, 1927, they vowed to make the team something all of Toronto would be proud of for years to come. Read the first page
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When Conn Smythe and his partners bought the Toronto St. Patrick's NHL franchise on February 14, 1927, they vowed to make the team something all of Toronto would be proud of for years to come. Read the first page
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This is a great book. It contains 75 best players, as well as coaches, from late 1920s to 2002. All favorite players are here in this book, including Darryl Sittler, Syl Apps, Mats Sundin, and Curtis Joseph. Coach Punch Imlach is also in it. It has both color and black & white photographs. It is for all Leafs fans who bleed blue & white and also for any hockey fans.
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Best Book on Maple Leafs' history!
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This is a great book. It contains 75 best players, as well as coaches, from late 1920s to 2002. All favorite players are here in this book, including Darryl Sittler, Syl Apps, Mats Sundin, and Curtis Joseph. Coach Punch Imlach is also in it. It has both color and black & white photographs. It is for all Leafs fans who bleed blue & white and also for any hockey fans.
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