Frank Orr spent 37 years as a sports reporter and columnist with the Toronto Star, covering all sports from college football to horse racing. His major beats were hockey from junior to the National Hockey League and world championships; auto racing, both Canadian and international competitions, and figure skating (12 world and Olympic championships).

Born and raised on a farm near the Ontario village of Hillsburgh, Frank was a radio announcer with stations in Chatham and Sault Ste Marie, Ontario. He was sports editor of the Cornwall Standard-Freeholder and Guelph Mercury, joining the Star in 1961.

Frank covered the Maple Leafs and NHL through much of his Star-time, including the four Leaf Stanley Cup titles in the 1960s. A highlight was the trail-blazing 1972 Summit Series between Team Canada and the national team of the old Soviet Union.

He also attended several world hockey championships in the ’70s and ’80s (no Canadian victories) and covered four Canadian triumphs in the world junior championships.

In a golden era of Canadian figure skating, Frank wrote “world champ” nine times – four men’s titles by Kurt Browning, three by Elvis Stojko, one, plus an Olympic silver, by Brian Orser, a world pairs crown by Isabelle Brasseur and Lloyd Eisler.

Frank has written or co-authored more than 30 books and contributed to 60 other books. The recently released The Dominators was co-authored by Frank and his Etobicoke neighbor George Tracz PhD.

In 1989, Frank was inducted into the media section of the Hockey Hall Of Fame and in 2003, he received the sports journalism lifetime achievement award of Sports Media Canada.

Frank and his wife Shirley, a health sciences college professor and consultant, have lived in Etobicoke lor 40 years.