Welcome to Maple Leaf Gardens
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Welcome to Maple Leaf Gardens by Lance Abel
Explore the unseen Maple Leaf Gardens Generations have come to marvel and celebrate spectacles of all kinds at Maple Leaf Gardens. With its soaring roof and massive walls, this iconic building tells a story with an unlikely beginning and an ending yet to be written. Built against all odds, in the grip of the Great Depression, the Gardens went on to host 2,533 hockey games, with the Toronto Maple Leafs' final regular season record 1,215 wins, 768 losses, and 346 ties. When it closed in 1999, it was the last Original Six arena still standing and remains in use for hockey today as Ryerson University's Mattamy Athletic Centre. In Welcome to Maple Leaf Gardens, Graig Abel and Lance Hornby have composed a rare, stunning, and historically invaluable tribute to what many would consider the Mecca of Canadian sport. Abel's years as the Maple Leafs' photographer make him the perfect guide for sports fans, music lovers, and star-gazers. Readers will experience the building's many innovative features from the rafters to the clock, from the rinkside gold seats right up to the greys, where the real fans sat. Alongside Abel's humorous first-hand stories about Harold Ballard, Doug Gilmour, and the celebrities who frequented the Gardens, Hornby gives a press box perspective on covering the Leafs at the end of the Gardens' eventful era and the building's place in history.
As the Leafs mark their 100th anniversary in 2016-2017, Graig Abel will be entering his 40th season as team photographer. His first book with Lance Hornby, Welcome to Maple Leaf Gardens, was released in 2013. Abel lives in Streetsville, Ontario. A sportswriter and columnist with the Toronto Sun since 1981, Lance Hornby has written, contributed to, or edited seven books on hockey and the Leafs. He pens the popular daily column This Day in Leafs History and is a frequent radio and TV commentator. He lives in Toronto, Ontario. Kelvington, Saskatchewan's Wendel Clark was chosen first overall in the 1985 NHL entry draft by the Toronto Maple Leafs.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781770411630 |
| ISBN 10 | 1770411631 |
| Title | Welcome to Maple Leaf Gardens |
| Author | Graig Abel |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | ECW Press,Canada |
| Year published | 2013-09-01 |
| Number of pages | 218 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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