The Maple Leafs Trivia Book, 1927–2003

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

This fourth edition of Mike Leonetti’s trivia book about Canada’s
best-loved professional hockey team contains information up to and
including the 2002–03 National Hockey League season. Although he has
included questions and answers about the Leafs from their beginnings in
1927, Leonetti explains that there is an emphasis on information from
1960 to 2003, which is sensible given the book’s intended audience of
boomers and their kids.

This is a book to keep handy when Hockey Night in Canada goes to
intermission and Don Cherry’s Coach’s Corner is over. Take it to the
cottage to sate your thirst for the Leafs during the short hockey
off-season. Stump your own teammates with questions such as “Which
players made up the Kid Line [of the 1930s]?” Most of the questions
include some introductory factual material, so even if you can’t stand
trivia question games, you can learn about the Leafs. “In his first
year … Johnny Bower was the backup for a goalie whom he would
eventually replace as the Leafs’ number-one netminder. Who was that
goalie?” Well, it was Ed Chadwick, but who knew Bower was ever
second-string?

A must-have for die-hard Maple Leaf and trivia fans, the book is
illustrated with fabulous black-and-white photos.