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Wednesday, September 23, 2015

Yogi Berra on ice

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Yogi Berra, a left-handed shot, tries to stick-handle the puck past St. Louis Flyers goalie Don (Mouse) MacDonald in a 1948 scrimmage. ...
Monday, August 10, 2015

'Old Rockpile' will become just that

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War Memorial Stadium in Buffalo By Tom Hawthorn The Globe and Mail July 13, 1987 BUFFALO, N.Y. —  Cy Williams sat in ...
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Thursday, July 2, 2015

Coley Hall (1906-2002), brought pugnacious presence to West Coast hockey and baseball

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CVA 1184-377 Coley Hall managed the St. Regis Hotel team in Vancouver's senior baseball league. By Tom Hawthorn The Globe and Mail ...
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Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Stoneman's second no-hitter a bright ending to a dismal season

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This article was originally written for a Society for American Baseball Research book on significant games in Montreal Expos history....
Saturday, April 25, 2015

Ben Meisner (1938-2015): B.C. radio's Voice of the North had a dark secret in his past

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By Tom Hawthorn The Globe and Mail April 20, 2015 Ben Meisner, a gruff radio talk-show host based in Prince George, B.C., w...
Friday, March 20, 2015

Fred Latremouille (1945-2015): His voice provided a soundtrack for a generation

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Fred Latremouille (left) and Red Robinson on the set of CBC's "Let's Go" c. 1964. By Tom Hawthorn The Globe and M...
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Sunday, March 8, 2015

Ordinary games, extraordinary athletes

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To mark International Women's Day, here's a selection of past articles and columns on Canadian women: Barbara Howard , the fi...
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Tom Hawthorn is a senior writer for the Government of B.C. He spent more than 40 years writing for newspapers and magazines in Canada and the United States. His most recent books are "Play Ball!," an anecdotal history of baseball in Vancouver, and "The Year Canadians Lost Their Minds and Found Their Country: The Centennial of 1967."
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