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One-time hero
One-time hero

One-time hero

Date1/24/1985
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Original Toronto Star caption: One-time hero: Joe Barnes, one of the greatest relief pitchers for Toronto's football Argonauts, was traded to Calgary Stampeders yesterday for a defensive end and future considerations. Since he will be a free agent in five weeks, Stempeder general manager Earl Lunsford is gambling on signing the Texan before he makes a deal with an NFL team.
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    GeographyCity, town, townshipToronto
    GeographyProvince stateOntario
    GeographyCountryCanada
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      ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
      CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
      Usage Rights Copyright (Learn More)
      Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
      Object NumberTSPA_0030810F
      Hero or hindrance?: Little worked for Rocket Ismail last season and Star columnist Jim Proudfoot believes it's time the Argos dumped him overboard
      Hero or hindrance?: Little worked for Rocket Ismail last season and Star columnist Jim Proudfoot believes it's time the Argos dumped him overboard
      Gower, Patti
      6/3/1991
      Greg Dixon: Hero bus driver didn't have time to think. I just reacted.
      Greg Dixon: Hero bus driver didn't have time to think. I just reacted.
      Bull, Ron
      4/10/1989
      Newfoundland Premier Clyde Wells, the portly and pedantic hero or villain of a tense national drama, took time out from politics this week to pose wit(...)
      Newfoundland Premier Clyde Wells, the portly and pedantic hero or villain of a tense national drama, took time out from politics this week to pose wit(...)
      Eglinton, Rick
      6/14/1990
      Major Mahony, V.C., in the field. Hero of Melfa says it was no one-man show.
      Major Mahony, V.C., in the field. Hero of Melfa says it was no one-man show.
      Mahony, John K.
      7/20/1944
      Modest Hero: Ron Clements is one reason Jennie Evans (right) and her daughter Theresa have been able to keep their home. Here, he fixes kitchen plumbing. He's also built gates, hung plants, repaired the furnace and once retrieved the Evans' dog from Lake Ontario.
      Modest Hero: Ron Clements is one reason Jennie Evans (right) and her daughter Theresa have been able to keep their home. Here, he fixes kitchen plumbing. He's also built gates, hung plants, repaired the furnace and once retrieved the Evans' dog from Lake Ontario.
      Bull, Ron
      2/23/1980
      Big hero in the tournament for Hamilton was pitcher Gregg Bannerman, right, a 6-foot, 180-pound 13-year-old who finished the series with 53 strike-outs in four games, 26 in one 14-inning win
      Big hero in the tournament for Hamilton was pitcher Gregg Bannerman, right, a 6-foot, 180-pound 13-year-old who finished the series with 53 strike-outs in four games, 26 in one 14-inning win
      Griffin, Doug
      9/3/1976
      Look up . . . look way up. It was one of those magic moments, when boy meets hero, in this case, it was Taylor Robson, all of 17 months old, who colle(...)
      Look up . . . look way up. It was one of those magic moments, when boy meets hero, in this case, it was Taylor Robson, all of 17 months old, who colle(...)
      Marois, Daniel
      11/7/1989
      Holding his award as Natinal Truck Hero of the Year, before it official presentation today, driver Ted Daubreville, 53, of Toronto, shows it to Carol MeCheshey, 10, of Grimsby, one of children in school bus he swerved to avoid.
      Holding his award as Natinal Truck Hero of the Year, before it official presentation today, driver Ted Daubreville, 53, of Toronto, shows it to Carol MeCheshey, 10, of Grimsby, one of children in school bus he swerved to avoid.
      Goode, Jeff
      11/21/1971
      Buzz Beurling. Canada's first war-hero history has been written - and by the hero himself in the same hard-hitting manner in which he dealt out sudden(...)
      Buzz Beurling. Canada's first war-hero history has been written - and by the hero himself in the same hard-hitting manner in which he dealt out sudden(...)
      Bevan, Vince
      7/29/1943
      My Hero!, who is the greatest living American hero today? That's the question editors of the World Almanac asked 3,000 high school students - and the (...)
      My Hero!, who is the greatest living American hero today? That's the question editors of the World Almanac asked 3,000 high school students - and the (...)
      Alda, Alan, 1936-
      5/6/1981
      Extra-Inning hero: Nelson Liriano gets a hero's welcome from Glenallen Hill, left, and Mookie Wilson after his double in the 13th gave the Jays and improbable 6-5 victory and kept the Orioles two lengths back in AL East race
      Extra-Inning hero: Nelson Liriano gets a hero's welcome from Glenallen Hill, left, and Mookie Wilson after his double in the 13th gave the Jays and improbable 6-5 victory and kept the Orioles two lengths back in AL East race
      Goode, Jeff
      9/20/1989
      Hero's welcome: Jeff Kent, the hero in yesterday's 2-1 win, exchanges high-fives with the man he drove in, Kelly Gruber
      Hero's welcome: Jeff Kent, the hero in yesterday's 2-1 win, exchanges high-fives with the man he drove in, Kelly Gruber
      Kent, Jeff, 1968-
      5/30/1992