15 Facts About Trent Frayne

Trent Gardiner Frayne was a Canadian sportswriter whose career stretched over 60 years.

Trent Frayne began his journalism career with the Brandon Sun at the age of 15 covering minor hockey and moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba three years later to accept a job with the Canadian Press and the Winnipeg Tribune in 1938.

Trent Frayne shared lodgings with Winnipeg Free Press columnist Scott Young and befriended Tribune columnist Ralph Allen.

Trent Frayne covered his first World Series in 1941 and interviewed Joe DiMaggio.

Trent Frayne left Winnipeg in 1942 for Ontario leaving his childhood nickname behind in favour of his given name of Trent.

Trent Frayne followed Young and Allen to Toronto and joined The Globe and Mail as a general reporter earning $45 a week.

Trent Frayne resumed his work as a full-time sportswriter when he joined the staff of the Toronto Telegram.

Trent Frayne moved to Maclean's Magazine in the 1950 where Callwood was by then working as a freelancer.

In 1959, Trent Frayne was hired by the Toronto Star as a feature writer and, from 1962 to 1968, worked as a publicist for the Ontario Jockey Club before resuming his journalism career and then moving to the Toronto Sun in the 1970s.

Trent Frayne wrote monthly columns for Maclean's from 1989 until his retirement at the age of 78 in 1997.

Trent Frayne wrote more than a dozen books, won the National Newspaper Award for sports writing in 1975 and was the first recipient of Brandon University's Quill Award for Outstanding Achievement in 1990.

Trent Frayne was honored by the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1984, receiving the Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award, and was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 1988.

Trent Frayne was inducted into the Canadian News Hall of Fame and honoured with a life membership in the Baseball Writers of America.

Trent Frayne's memoir is titled The Tales of an Athletic Supporter.

Trent Frayne died at the age of 93 of pneumonia and complications related to old age.