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Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. Vintage Montreal Royals program for a 1960 game against the visiting Miami Marlins. Text in English and French. Nice photo ad inside front cover features Joe Altobelli of the Royals being fitted for a suit at Tony the Tailor Ltd. in Montreal. Altobelli went on to play in the majors and managed Baltimore to a World Series championship in 1983. Many other nice vintage ads. Article about league president Frank Shaughnessy and league secretary Harry Simmons and their concern that the Continental league will decimate the old International. Centerfold sponsored by Shopsy's features a cavalcade of photos of sportsmen in the media who cover the local team. Nice photo of young Marco Tomasso presenting an award to second baseman Kurt Roberts. List of home games for the year. Article (in French) on Willard Mitchell (Billy) Hunter. Article (in French) on Ron Perranoski. 24 pages. Unmarked with moderate wear. According to Wikipedia, in 1961 the team was moved to Syracuse, leaving Montreal without professional baseball until the arrival of the major league Expos in 1969. A nice copy of this great Royals collectible.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. First Edition. 80 pages. Where to begin describing this incredible Toronto Maple Leaf souvenir? Colour-illustrated front cover features prominent black and white photo of Leaf player Elwyn Morris. Contents: Nice military-themed colour ad for B-A inside front cover; One-page ad for Simpson's overcoats for men; Page two displays the "Gardens" Executive and Board of Directors with photos of twenty-one gentlemen including Major Conn Smythe; Nice one-page ad for ENO's 'fruit salt'; Information about many players from the New York Rangers, Detroit Red Wings, ; Nice one-page illustrated ad for Peoples Credit Jewellers, celebrating their 25th Anniversary; Wildfire Chocolate Bar ad; ad for Orange-Crush and Lime Crush rickey; Nice one-page ad for 'The House of Stone' high-end clothing business; Nice one-page photo ad for Brylcreem; Nice one-page military-themed ad for Wrigley's Spearmint Gum; Article by Frank Selke Jr.; Article on Toronto Sports Personalities; Nice Black Cat cigarette ad; One-page ad for Scott's Emulsion; Nice one-page ad for Midtown Tire features photos and write-ups of owners Stan Bacon and Sam Shefsky; Who's Who on the Maple Leafs and the Montreal Canadiens?; Half-page Coke ad shows Allied airman talking to a group while he holds a remmant of a Nazi plane, the remnant bearing a large swastika; One-page ad for Maclean Stomach Powder; One page ad for Joseph Gould & Sons, maker of clothing; One-page ad for Du-Val products; Hockey's Immortal Characters - article on Newsy Lalonde; Centrefold, loose but present, lists fourteen Chicago players - one name stroked out and another hand-written in below, and seventeen Toronto players; Great vintage ad for Vernor's Ginger Ale; Who's Who on the Boston Bruins?; Royal York Hotel ad promotes Horace Lapp and his 'Orchestra of Funmakers'; Nice two-page ad for Bee Hive Corn Syrup; Illustrated ad for the W.H. Dunne Skate Co.; Ad for Tease Knitting Co. which makes jerseys for the Toronto Maple Leafs; Nice one-page ad for Germolene ointment; Odex soap ad shows man in shower; Nice illustrated ad for the 'Honey Dew Shop'; Thermogene Wool ad; Fantastic cartoon ad for the Chicken Palace restaurant in Toronto; Article - With Our Boys on Active Service (In WWII) - featuring Turk Broda; NHL Schedule for 1944-45; Only One Brother Act Left in Big-Time Hockey - The Bruneteau brothers of the Detroit Red Wings; Who's Who on the Chicago Black Hawks; Ad for Gordon Dunfield military outfitters; Nice vintage one-page ad for C.C.M. skating equipment, with illustrations of the Allan Cup, Stanley Cup, and Memorial Cup; Nice illustrated ad for Winnwell hockey equipment; Article - Hockey History of Ancient America; One-page ad for Veno's cough syrup; Nice one-page ad for "Export" - Canada's Finest Cigarette; Nice two-colour ad for Dentyne Gum inside back cover; Great colour ad on back cover for Sweet Caporal cigarettes features attractive lady and instructions how to order cigarettes for 'the boys overseas' (in WWII). Above-average external wear. Openings along coverfold. A magnificent Toronto hockey collectible.