Darril Fosty

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Darril Fosty
Darril Fosty at 2008 NHL All-Star Game
Darril Fosty at 2008 NHL All-Star Game
BornDarril Wayne Fosty
(1968-12-21) December 21, 1968 (age 52)
Terrace, British Columbia
OccupationWriter
Years active2003–present

Darril Wayne Fosty (December 21, 1968) is a Canadian-born sports writer, author, and documentarian.[1]

History[]

Born in Terrace, British Columbia on December 21, 1968, Fosty's family moved to Kamloops, British Columbia where he started grade one. After high school, Fosty moved to Bellingham, Washington where he attended Western Washington University majoring in history and journalism and graduating in 1992.

In 1994, Fosty wrote press releases for the Seattle Sounders FC sports information department. After leaving the Sounders, he worked for the Internet security start-up Zendit, now Authora.[2] In 2003, Fosty released his first book with his brother George, "Splendid is the Sun: The 5,000 Year History of Hockey."

In 2004, he released the book "Black Ice: The Lost History of the Colored Hockey League, 1895-1925" which was featured in a short documentary on ESPN [3] and featured on Oprah.com "Books That Made A Difference".[4] The book is credited with the revival of the history of the Colored Hockey League of the Maritimes. [5]

A documentary short written, produced, and directed by Fosty in conjunction with the National Hockey League Diversity Program called "Black Ice" was the winner of "Best Documentary Short" at the 2008 Roxbury Film Festival in Boston[6]

Darril and his brother George were honored by the Shaka Franklin Foundation of Denver, Colorado for the creation of "The Black Ice Project" and their ongoing efforts to preserve Black history (2008), Teaching Awards from George Washington University for the book Black Ice (2011)[7] and John G. Dennison Award in 2020 by the Black History Ottawa board for the promotion of Canadian Black history and culture.[8]

Personal life[]

Fosty is currently living in New York City and is the co-founder of the Society of North American Sports Historians and Researchers and founder and Editor-In-Chief of Boxscore World Sportswire.[9][10]

Non-fiction[]

  • Splendid Is The Sun: The 5,000 Year History of Hockey (2003).
  • Black Ice: The Lost History of the Colored Hockey League of the Maritimes (2004).
  • Footie's Black Book: A Guide To International Association Football (World Cup Soccer 2010 Edition) (2010).
  • Where Brave Men Fall: The Battle of Dieppe And The Allied Espionage War Against Hitler, 1939–1942 (2013).
  • Tribes: An International Hockey History (2014).
  • Creating Excellence: Inside the World of Stryker-Indigo (2014).

Fiction[]

  • Apocalypse 2012 Cookbook: An End of the World Cooking and Survival Guide for the Man, Woman and Family On The Run (2011).

References[]

  1. ^ "At Roxbury Film Festival, a difficult question: Can white filmmakers make black films?". Bay State Banner Newspaper.
  2. ^ "Authora". Archived from the original on September 24, 2012.a
  3. ^ "Frozen Out". YouTube.
  4. ^ "Books That Made A Difference". Oprah.com.
  5. ^ "Canada stamps honor on pre-NHL all-black hockey league". Associated Press.
  6. ^ "At Roxbury Film Festival, a difficult question: Can white filmmakers make black films?". Bay State Banner Newspaper.
  7. ^ "Sports Historians Darril & George Fosty To Receive Teaching Awards From George Washington University". BoxscoreNews.
  8. ^ "Black History Ottawa Award Winners". Black History Ottawa.
  9. ^ "Boxscore World Sportswire". boxscorenews.com.
  10. ^ "Shunpiking:The Discovery Magazine". shunpiking.org.
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