Maple Leaf Legends: 75 Years of Toronto's Hockey Heroes

Janet Money is a writer and policy analyst for the Canadian Cystic
Fibrosis Foundation in Toronto.

Maple Leaf Legends appears to have it all: fabulous design, terrific
photos, great info (prominent Leafs from every decade of the club’s
existence are profiled), and insightful pieces by some well-known
writers (including Hockey Hall of Fame inductee Frank Orr).

There’s the well-known lore about Ace Bailey’s near-death—and
career-ending—experience at the end of a stick wielded by Eddie Shore;
an incisive piece on what Borje Salming meant to the Leafs, and to the
National Hockey League overall, when he arrived on the scene in the
1970s; a candid admission by the author that “there were so many bad
moments in the ’80’s that a whole chapter could be devoted to the
issue” (thankfully, this was not done); and a chronicle of the
team’s return to respectability in the 1990s and beyond.

This could be the ultimate Toronto Maple Leafs coffee-table book—at
least until a younger, stronger competitor comes along.