Overtime, Overdue: The Bill Barilko Story
Trenton, Ontario: City Print, 1988. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Fine / Near Fine. Item #007485
Full navy cloth. B&W pictorial endpapers. Very slight bumping and rubbing to spine ends, else fine. Dust jacket is sunned, rubbed to covers. 141 pp., [9] pp. B&W photos at rear. Here is the dramatic, untold story of Bill Barilko, the NHL defenseman who scored the winning overtime goal in the 1951 playoffs against the Montreal Canadiens and won the Stanley Cup for the Toronto Maple Leafs. Soon after, his disappearance in the northern Ontario bush made headlines across the country and led to the largest combined search operation in Canadian history. The Tragically Hip song "Fifty Mission Cap" tells the story of Barilko's disappearance and the Leafs' subsequent Stanley Cup drought until 1962, the year the plane Barilko went down in was finally discovered after 11 years.
Price: $35.00