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Born on March 16, 1937 in Nipawin, Saskatchewan, Jim Taylor of West Vancouver was BC's most widely-read sports columnist. Taylor began his newspaper career in 1954 as a part-time sports reporter at the "Daily Colonist" in Victoria and later wrote for the "Vancouver Sun", the "Vancouver Province" and the "Calgary Sun". He became a nationally syndicated sports columnist, author, and broadcaster. His 1987 chronicle of Rick Hansen's wheelchair journey, "Man In Motion", reputedly had a record first printing for a BC book. In addition to Taylor's books on Wayne Gretzky, entitled "Gretzky: The Authorized Pictorial Biography with Wayne Gretzky", and BC Lions' Jim Young, entitled "Dirty Thirty". Taylor is credited with the re-write of a Soviet journalist's biography of Igor Larionov. In 2004, he compiled "The Best of Jim Coleman: Fifty Years of Canadian Sport from the Man Who Saw it All". A member of the BC Sports Hall of Fame and the Canadian Football League Hall of Fame, Taylor was awarded a lifetime achievement award by Sports Media Canada in 2000. He began his writing career as part-time high school sports reporter, drank beer from the Stanley Cup, saw Paul Henderson score "The Goal" in 1972, predicted rookie placekicker Lui Passaglia wouldn't last with the BC Lions more than one season and wrote more than 8,000 newspaper columns. He recalls his half-century as a sports writer in "Hello, Sweetheart? Gimme Rewrite!"
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- PublisherKessinger Publishing, LLC
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 1166133109
- ISBN 13 9781166133108
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages310
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