Historical Hockey and Sports Memorabilia Auction February 2025
A definite prerequisite to any advanced hockey library, the "Trail of the Stanley Cup" three (3) volume set of books by author Charles L. Coleman is chalked full of information, painting a complete picture of the game of hockey and it's most famous trophy between the period of 1893 to 1967. Offered here, and hailing from the personal collection of legendary journalist Frank Brown, is this copy of Vol. 3 from the set. Sporting a blue hard cover and still retaining its original and simplistic brown coloured dust jacket that displays pertinent information over the spine, the book features a total of 978 pages on the interior covering information found between 1947 and 1967, a period of time referred to as the league's "Golden Era". Remaining in overall excellent condition for its effort, with just a bit of wear to the to the edges of the dust jacket, the pages on the interior also show some very light toning that is worth mentioning for accuracy. A Classic Auctions LOA will accompany the piece.
Publishing his first paid hockey article in a New York Rangers game program in 1970 that earned him a total of fifty ($50) dollars, from there, Frank Brown began his career as a journalist for The Associated Press, typically covering the Montreal Canadiens. Under the leadership of Stan Fischler, Brown stated he learned the "courage of my convictions" after being handed Gordie Howe's phone number. Moving on to the New York Daily News in 1980, where he would remain until 1998, when he joined the National Hockey League as a communication executive, a position he would hold with the league until his retirement in 2018. He was awarded the Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award by the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2019.
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