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We Are Your Leafs: The Toronto Maple Leafs Book of Greats

We Are Your Leafs: The Toronto Maple Leafs Book of Greats Buy The Book: Amazon.ca - Chapters - Amazon.com Boy was I ever wrong about this book! I should have known better. Michael Ulmer is an excellent writer, especially when it comes to the Toronto Maple Leafs. But when I first learned of  We Are Your Leafs: The Toronto Maple Leafs Book of Greats  I foolishly assumed this was just another in the long line of photo-laden, pedestrian coffee table books about Leafs players from the past. There are quite a few over the years, after all. And they all tend to be alike. But Ulmer's wowed me. He honoured Leafs teams and stars by the decade, and he constantly taught me new details about them. I kind of pride myself in bio writing of star players of yesteryear, and I've done a lot of reading and my own writing. But Ulmer had me devouring this book all evening as he taught me all sorts of wonderful new biographical tidbits. Ultimately this book is a photo-laden coffee ...