This full-page full-colour spread in the Sunday Sports section today would cost $39,307.63, plus $7,842.03 for colour by Toronto Star advertising rates. That's a grand total of  $53750.61 after tax. But it was my good fortune that Garth Woolsey, the Star sports editor at the time, who was familiar with my editorial illustration work, saw this piece as a news item. He dispatched their award winning photographer Boris Spremo to shoot my 5 foot x 3.5 foot original acrylic on canvas. After it hit the newsstands I tried to offer Garth a complimentary print as a token of my deep appreciation, but he would not accept it on ethical grounds. What a class guy. I think he enjoyed helping a local artist get some mass media exposure.