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Blue book cover with a blue maple leaf in the centre. On top of the maple leaf is a goalie hockey mask with "Leafs 365" in large text underneath.

Leafs 365

Leafs 365: Daily Stories from the Ice includes 365 short stories about Toronto’s most culturally significant sports team — one for every day of the year.

Blue book cover with a blue maple leaf in the centre. On top of the maple leaf is a goalie hockey mask with "Leafs 365" in large text underneath.
Cover of “Leafs 365” by Mike Commito. 2024 Heritage Toronto Book Award nominee. Cover designed and illustrated by Ron Beltrame.

Cover of “Leafs 365” by Mike Commito, 2024 Heritage Toronto Book Award nominee. Cover designed and illustrated by Ron Beltrame.

Author: Mike Commito

Publisher: Dundurn Press Ltd.

As Toronto’s most storied sports team, the history of the Toronto Maple Leafs is the history of the city itself. Mike Commito’s exhaustively researched and endlessly entertaining bite-sized history covers from the franchise’s early beginning as the Arenas and the St. Patricks to the incredible four-goal comeback against the Lightning in the 2023 Stanley Cup Playoffs. Leafs 365 includes 365 short stories about Toronto’s most culturally significant sports team — one for every day of the year — to remind you why you still cheer for the blue and white season after season.

Some people say that the Leafs are cursed, but any team that brings the city this many moments worth revisiting must be blessed.

About the Author:

Mike Commito is a hockey historian and author of the Hockey 365 series. His work has been featured on the Athletic and Sportsnet and in the Hockey News and the Sudbury Star, his local newspaper. Mike has also had the opportunity to regularly cover the LA Kings and has penned stories for four other NHL teams. In 2018, one of his articles received the Paul Kitchen Award from the Society for International Hockey Research. Mike has a Ph.D. in history from McMaster University.

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