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Russ Conway
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Russ Conway is Associate Editor of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Eagle-Tribune in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Mr. Conway was the Recipient of the Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award as selected by the Professional Hockey Writers Association, and he was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame. He has been covering professional hockey since 1968. He is the author of "Game Misconduct: Alan Eagleson and the Corruption of Hockey," a Sports Illustrated top 100 sports book of all time.
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Russ Conway became one of Britain's best loved TV musicians during the late 1950s. As the 1950s gave way to the 1960s he finally overtook the great Winifred Atwell as the piano player closest to the nation's heart. There is no doubt that he was an accomplished pianist despite being handicapped by the loss of a finger; an injury sustained in a domestic accident. He had started his professional career playing piano accompaniment for some of the UK's best known singing stars, probably serving longest with Joan Regan.
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Russ Conway comes to the rescue of the National Hockey League Players Association. After observing the less than comfortable lifestyles of retired players, Conway studies the management of the NHL's player pension fund. He finds the pension funds were not as lucrative as he and many retirees expected them to be. Further investigation shows that Alan Eagelson invested players' pensions into other business ventures, as well as pocketing his self-made commissions for filing insurance claims on behalf of the players. With quotes from many retired players as well as documentation to support Conway's claims, it's a true paper chase as you hope the good guys eventually get the bad guy or, in this case, Alan Eagelson
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Russ Conway has written a wonderful investigative piece about a man who is truly a disgraceful figure in the history of Canadian hockey. Russ brings forth, with his own agressive style, the wicked ways of a man who calling a crook is an understatement. First, he never backed down to get his answers and his writing is first-rate. Anyone who follows hockey should read about a man who almost destroyed it.
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Conway was born in Bristol, England. He had no formal piano training and spent his early adulthood in the Navy. Conway was talent-spotted while playing in a London club, signed to Columbia Records and spent the mid 1950s providing backing for their artists including Gracie Fields and Joan Regan. However, the commercial potential of Conway's unique percussive piano style (which he attributed to a missing fingertip he had severed many years previously with a bread slicer) was too great for him to remain in the background for long. Conway recorded his first solo single in 1957, a novelty instrumental medley of pop standards.
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R[U]ss Conway is probably best know for his role as Lieutenant Pete Kyle in the 1959 TV series Richard Diamond which starred David Janssen. He should not be confused with the late, British-born pianist of the same name.
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