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   From: jrsinc@mnsi.net   
      
   1985 "Hello Canada! The Life And Times Of Foster Hewitt" 1st Edition Book   
      
      
   I have for sale out-of-print, 1st edition hardcover book "HELLO CANADA! The   
   Life And Times Of Foster Hewitt" by Scott Young (1985). This hardcover   
   edition   
   contains 216 pages including vintage black and white photographs profiling   
   the life and broadcasting career of Toronto Maple Leafs' broadcaster Foster   
   Hewitt. The edition's photos include Foster Hewitt with such hockey notables   
   as Bobby Hull, Conn Smythe, Punch Imlach, King Clancy, Bill Hewitt, and   
   many more, as well as a action photos of 1972 Team Canada vs. Russia.   
   The contents includes such chapters as: The Bloodlines, Growing Up, Radio   
   Takes Over, Foster's First Hockey Broadcast, Father and Son, Battle at the   
   Gardens, and more.   
   Front Jacket Excerpt:   
   "Foster Hewitt was only a few months past his twentieth birthday when he   
   broadcast his first hockey game. His broadcast booth was an airless glass   
   box laid across three frnot row seats in Toronto's old Mutual Street   
   Arena...But with all that he was an immediate hit. Within a few years he   
   was famous, his audiences sometimes numbering an astounishing one-third of   
   Canada's eighteen million citizens of the time. HELLO CANADA! is the first   
   definitive biography of Foster Hewitt and how he saw the game from the best   
   seat in the house-his famous gondola high above the ice at Maple leaf   
   Gardens."   
   - "He was hockey to a nation. This is a great book about a great   
   Canadian". - Punch Imlach.   
   - "He Shoots! He Scores! Few Canadians will ever forget the sound of Foster   
   Hewitt's voice as he screamed those famous words through so many   
   games-words more famous than the thousands of goals now lost in hockey   
   history."   
   The 1985 "Hello Canada! The Life And Times Of Foster Hewitt" 1st edition   
   hardcover book is in MINT condition.   
   Price $30. plus postage   
      
      
   Please include your "postal mailing address" so I can calculate postage   
   costs to your destination. Thank you   
      
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