Greatest Grey Cups: The Best of Canadian Football.

Trevor S. Raymond is a teacher and librarian with the Peel Board of Education and editor of Canadian Holmes.

Alberta’s Altitude Publishing offers attractive works of popular history in their mass-market paperbacks, “True Canadian Amazing Stories.” Their three dozen illustrated titles are short, have large, inviting print, and range from colourful biographies to Great Cat Stories. This one—whose author began writing about the Canadian Football League in 1963 and has penned three other books about the CFL—has 10 chapters. Each chapter is ostensibly about one memorable Grey Cup game, but also includes thumbnail sketches of well-remembered players and short histories of the various franchises.

Sports fans and nostalgia buffs will enjoy this lively book. It brings to life some glorious days in Canadian sport, offers reflections by the great players on the games they once played, and at least one revelation that surprises: there is an extraordinary number of records set in the 1950s and 60s, that have never been broken.