Trent Frayne

Trent Gardiner Frayne (September 13, 1918 – February 11, 2012) was a Canadian sportswriter whose career stretched over 60 years. Pierre Berton described Frayne as "likely Canada's greatest sportswriter ever."

He followed Young and Allen to Toronto and joined The Globe and Mail as a general reporter earning $45 a week. At the Globe he met June Callwood whom he married in 1944. Frayne resumed his work as a full-time sportswriter when he joined the staff of the Toronto Telegram. He moved to Maclean's Magazine in the 1950 where Callwood was by then working as a freelancer. Fellow Maclean's writer Pierre Berton became a close friend and said of the couple "They were very much in love, a handsome couple who called each other 'Dreamy,'" The couple raised four children in the Etobicoke home they shared until Callwood's death in 2007. He 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. Frayne was also inducted into the Canadian News Hall of Fame and honoured with a life membership in the Baseball Writers of America.

Personal life and death

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