Harold Ballard : Wha’D’Ya Mean Ex-Con (1980) - The Fifth Estate

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Adrienne Clarkson profiles Harold Ballard, the then controversial co-owner of Maple Leaf Gardens and the Toronto Maple Leaf hockey team. In 1972 Ballard was convicted on charges of theft and fraud related to misappropriation of Maple Leafs Gardens funds, and was sentenced to 9 years in prison, ultimately serving one year in jail. Ballard owned the Leafs until his death at the age of 86 in 1990.
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@ThePolerbearproducts 3 года назад

Yankee Stadium: “The House Ruth Built” Maple Leaf Gardens: “The House Ballard Destroyed”

@gregoryian123 Год назад

You are buying into the media bullshite too much

@byff2323 2 года назад

UrinatingTree brought me here.

@joepalooka2145 5 лет назад

Hilarious when she says "fans pay as much as $17 a seat"!

@SumitAtreGoogle 3 года назад

For perspective thats $52.77 in 2020 CDN dollars. Absurdly cheap.

@riobabic8960 3 года назад

You can’t get popcorn for $17 in 2021 !

@MG-cw4rw 3 года назад

@@SumitAtreGoogle not really, you also have to take in the inflation prices

@andrewhayes88 2 года назад

The first and so far the only Leafs game I ever went to, a tall can of beer was over $18. People are mad to pay for one.

@anniemae62 Год назад

In those days, my parents paid about $33.00 a week for groceries for a family of 8 so $17.00 was a freakin' lot of money to spend on an 'unnecessary' item, especially multiple tickets. But yeah, would love to find a ticket for that price now!

@MoveInSilence23 5 лет назад

These old Canadian documentaries are great!!

@MoveInSilence23 5 лет назад

@Ms Mccoy meh

@oilersridersbluejays Год назад

Definitely better than the new ones. Defund the CBC!

@vader97100 3 года назад

I’m under the impression Ballard murdered Stafford Smythe and forged the will to get sole ownership. With his personality, it sounds realistic.

@dannythomas417 Год назад

And I'm under the impression that Jacques Lemaire is the real mastermind behind our curse. The fact that he joined Montreal for the 1967-68 campaign makes me believe that he's the worst thing that ever happened to the league.

@aai3661 6 лет назад

LOL. And it's STILL only 1980. Years and years of misery ahead still.

@michaelcanney7218 4 года назад

40 years later and still no cup lol

@nosyargerdna 3 года назад

@@michaelcanney7218 It's actually fun and @ the same time it hurts watching the 1993 maple leafs playoffs currently on sportsnet.

@johnlacey3857 Год назад

I’m doubtful we’ll ever see a Stanley Cup again in our lifetimes...

@aai3661 5 лет назад

She's talking about the struggling team and it's 1980. Little did she know that it was all down hill from there.

@thehappycappy120 5 лет назад

Aaron I ot was long before 1980 try late 1960s

@mckessa17 8 месяцев назад

The 80s were the worse time to be a Leaf fan. I lived it.

@SpyroPS1iscool 3 года назад

A movie needs to be made about Harold Ballard, it would be super interesting especially with the feuds between Keon, Sittler, and Vaive

@jayp.6166 Год назад

Jason Priestly directed a Harold Ballard documentary that is premiering on CBC this Sunday. It's called "Offside"

@anniemae62 Год назад

It was just on TV a few days ago, all those guys you named (and more) were on and yeah, it was good!

@travisazzopardi8024 Год назад

Good to know cause I recorded it but still haven't watched it yet. Thanks Cindy. ;)

@shinkoakata11 Год назад

@@travisazzopardi8024 Can u send me a video file in mp4 or mkv format? I am working outside of Canada and not ale to get CBC.

@stevethompson6059 2 месяца назад

What a Greasey sales Man more than half in the Documentary

@reprogrammingmind 5 лет назад

$17 a ticket for the golds! Those were the days.

@robminmonaca 4 года назад

This guy makes don sterling of the NBA and dan Snyder of the NFL look like saints.

@robminmonaca 4 года назад

I will also add George Steinbrenner even though he said some questionable things himself but actually wanted to win. This guy was in it for the money and was still making it and only caring about the building that the team.

@cityhawk 2 года назад

As much as I didn’t like Steinbrenner as a Yankees fan, I can’t say that he was a penny-pinching cheapwad.

@freethinker2350 Месяц назад

Ballard was bad but not to the point where Snyder or sterling look good. With these clowns one is just as bad as the others.

@jethronb 6 лет назад

Now I know why Dave Keon took so long to come back for the fans

@jokerswank6082 2 года назад

If not for him, Davey probably wouldn't have went to the WHA. Sure Sittler might've became captain later but things might've gotten better

@clown-world2.0 Год назад

Today's Maple Leafs need to play like the 60's Maple Leafs.

@dzanier 2 года назад

It’s hard to believe that there are actually some people who have nice things to say about him.

@brianmouland209 Год назад

My mom detested Ballard and called his private box, the Jail Cell

@jesfel14 3 года назад

Tree Brought me here thanks to the Half century of failure video on the Leafs.

@custodiansrock Год назад

We shared season tickets in the 80s. Crazy times. Funny, same results today. Still no Cup.

@dannythomas417 Год назад

This is why Ballard and Jacques Lemaire are THE worst.

@Hushoo 7 лет назад

She's so blunt. Haven't seen this kind of documentary these days.

@TheLeafsfanTV 5 лет назад

Ballard and Eugene Melnyk are so much alike. As a long time leafs fan I'm enjoying watching the sens go through what the leafs went through 40 years ago.

@cashtheyen4113 4 года назад

Eugene Melnyk doesn't hate black people like Ballard did.

@cariopuppetmaster 3 года назад

He is 10 thousand times worse than Melynk

@TheLeafsfanTV 3 года назад

Cashtheyen I didn’t mention anything about him or Melnyk hating black people. It didn’t need to be brought up.

@jadenippersiel912 3 года назад

It's not even close

@timothydaniels504 Год назад

When I was 15 years old I used to walk past Harold Ballard’s house on the way to baseball practice. In the summer he was often sitting on his front steps with a drink in one hand and a garden hose in the other. When he was in the mood he would turn the hose on me or any other kid walking by. He wasn’t funny. He was an embarrassment to his family and the NHL.

@mike196212 Год назад

You're right,but he had plenty of embarrassing company to help him along. Pretty sure he took money from other teams in 1981 to move the Leafs into the old Norris Division. Good old Ken Dryden(I'm a Leafs' fan;been with them since 1970) brought them back home in 1998.

@brettpatterson404 5 месяцев назад

@@mike196212being rivals with. Chicago, Detroit and St. Louis was better than being in the east.

@mike196212 5 месяцев назад

You're right considering how the Leafs were crumbling back then. No argument from me now that I really think about it.

@mike196212 5 месяцев назад

Correct.

@ibeleaf 6 лет назад

some people want a time machine to go back and take out hitler... i'd take a little "detour" first.

@orbyfan Год назад

Don Cherry hasn't changed much; in those days his Herb Tarlek suits fit right in.

@Popsfresh 2 года назад

Back when people were comfortable saying the N word on national television.

@kellismith4329 Год назад

Back then it wasn’t a matter of comfort, it was just a word like any other Is it any less offensive to call him a black guy ? Why use anything descriptive how about just a guy ?

@sashineb.2114 5 лет назад

Very interesting, thanks for posting this. I remember in the late 80s when Harold & Yolanda were in the news constantly, with her trying to marry him. I had just watched the 6pm CBC Toronto news and then left to meet a friend for supper. I passed Maple Leaf Gardens, looked up and there she was in the apartment -- Yolanda, on the phone, pacing back and forth. Probably discussing her latest appearance on the news.

@yomama9567 6 лет назад

"I've cruised with Howard, I have trolled with Howard- and Howard has no trouble loving ladies, in every way"...WOW- the good old days!

@TheVeek192 4 года назад

@julienllcooljjulienllcoolj353 4 года назад

They should make a movie about this.

@MIchaelMiii 6 лет назад

What a piece of work that guy was. Wouldn't last a day in today's culture

@brettpatterson404 5 лет назад

michael miiii lol yeah the president of the United States begs to differ

@jokerswank6082 2 года назад

His management was a joke even when there were great players. Ownership seems to make a big difference in making great teams. Look at Detroit before and after Illitch bought them for example.

@glenw-xm5zf Год назад

Hog wash. He would be elected by the Libs as p.m. of Canada

@gc6888 Год назад

Too many snowflakes now

@geoff3103 7 месяцев назад

he probably would. Not like Leafs fans will stay home or not tune in. And he'd make mincemeat out of Bettman

@SeLLy261 3 года назад

25:17 Lanny Mcdonald. What a player he was.

@sheltr9735 Год назад

What a man, period!

@kellismith4329 Год назад

If not for Ballard, Lanny would have retired there - Flames won out there as he was taylor made for them

@paddywagondriver4205 3 года назад

This would be a great Netflix Movie

@joepalooka2145 5 лет назад

They should erase the Alan Eagleson interview, he's a pariah of the NHL forever.

@warrenl6863 7 лет назад

Took the Maple Leafs and ran them into the ground.

@nortorioustxc4359 3 года назад

So Ballard is like the NHL version of Donald Sterling

@BBQFanNo1 24 дня назад

The NHL Version of Marge Schott

@nortorioustxc4359 24 дня назад

@@BBQFanNo1 that too

@pikeman80 3 года назад

And they still haven't won the Cup in Canada's second century!!!!!! They still have 46 years left. Lol

@patrickcrowley806 2 года назад

Wow, truly a different era

@travisazzopardi8024 Год назад

"Paying as much as $17 a ticket." I miss those days. And $10 concert tickets too.

@MikeyMike-uu3fe Год назад

7:00 That was a cool thing he did for the kid.....Harold lived his life how we wanted too....I admire that

@roadstar92220 Год назад

Used to see Harold up in Tiny Township at his cottage. His garage was full of memorabilia.

@incarnateTheGreat 8 месяцев назад

Wow. Wonder if he was all auctioned off or if his kids have it.

@wparro6009 4 года назад

Wild...grapes is fired Ballard would be rolling in his grave

@darrellsturrock5795 7 лет назад

His head would spin if he saw the money MSLE was making today.

@majorsmythe1 5 лет назад

Harold made the "Carlton street cashbox" and set the foundations for ML$E. Check the stock price of MLG when he started and when he left, incredible business success. Gave millions to charity. Not calling him a saint, but those are facts.

@crowtservo 3 года назад

His head would explode if he saw how much players were making today.

@cgc8382 Год назад

a great mini doc from 1980 👍

@stuartmcdonald5172 5 лет назад

When criminals and psychopaths run sports teams, you get what you got in Toronto in the 1980s - a nightmare. All those decent people that protected and defended this monster (Milt Dunnell, for example) are ultimately, just as disgusting.

@MapleSyrupPoet Год назад

Always enjoyed 5th Estate 😊😊❤

@GetBenched2010 Год назад

Ballard was a real life Bond villain!

@trainfire2008 6 месяцев назад

“Do you expect me to talk?” “Noooo, Mr. Bond, I expect you to Die‼️”

@user-rs1ui4sv2w 5 месяцев назад

History of the maple laughs .😂😂 things haven’t changed 😢😢

@thomasb.smithjr.8401 2 месяца назад

Harold Ballard is the type of fellow who, when peeking into his Christmas stocking on Xmas morn and seeing nothing but horse manure, would exclaim, 'Hey, I've got a pony around here somewhere - I just know it !" 😉

@lisahardy9707 Год назад

Lol Eagleson was a CON man himself

@SuperStrik9 6 лет назад

Worst owner in sports history. A horrible human being. Racist, sexist, tax cheat, petty. He once took back a car he gave as a gift to a long time employee after the employee's death smh.

@Psychiatrick Год назад

Too bad about his income tax issues ... the last valid Income tax law expired May 9 1921.

@Gazooo29 7 лет назад

WOW $17.00 for a ticket, what are tickets worth now.

@yolovideos8084 4 года назад

170.00

@yolovideos8084 4 года назад

box seats 1,7000 just carry the decimal and you can calculate todays prices

@SportsFan2001 Год назад

14:33 Thanks for watching! And now for some wise words from Harold Ballard...

@jersey4755 5 месяцев назад

"Last December it reached it's lowest point ever..." More like one of the best things to ever happen in any sport. Bet that stupid fan never mouthed off or threw something at another player again.

@raymondsupper 2 года назад

Millhaven would make a great retirement center with Tenderloin and fresh buttered garden peas for dinner

@e.a.p3174 Год назад

now it's 2023 and the Leafs still haven't won anything

@calvinw8470 Год назад

Neither have the Coyotes, Sabres, Blue Jackets, Panthers, Wild, Predators, Senators, Flyers, Sharks, Kraken, Canucks, Golden Knights, & Jets.

@bassiejazz Год назад

@@calvinw8470 Flyers haven't won the Stanley Cup?

@calvinw8470 Год назад

@@bassiejazz Not since this feature was released (1980). Flyers last won in '75.

@SylveonMujigaeOfficial 2 месяца назад

@@calvinw8470You can take the Golden Knights off now

@stevethompson6059 2 месяца назад

At least he was honest being called a con Artist by journalist Clarkson who took helicopter to her Cottage years later, Maybe let's do a Documentary on Clarkson on her year as Governor General

@alexchiasson322 Год назад

His time as the owner of the leafs was always interesting. But for Toronto fans it must have been a nightmare. He took a storied franchise in Canada’s premier market down the toilet and has put a curse that is still alive to this day. I am sure that the ghost of Howard ballard attended all those game 7s.

@1990pommie Год назад

ballards problem he could not stand fools which is why? media was against him simple.

@u2ooby 3 года назад

Do remember he was born in 1903...before the airplane was invented and the titanic sinking.

@cityhawk 2 года назад

Too bad that he wasn’t on the Titanic.

@jayp.6166 Год назад

Man, I miss the Gardens So incredibly much better than the Scotiabank Library

@welterskelter Год назад

She's smitten.

@MapleSyrupPoet 5 месяцев назад

"Dr Ballsss" 😅❤

@kingofqueens83 2 года назад

Harold Ballard was like George Steinbrenner turned up to one hundred.

@kcatleticos Год назад

Steinbrenner wasn't cheap and built a Championship with his money-- Ballard complete opposite-- don't see comparison..

@adandemobilegamer Год назад

@@kcatleticos exactly 💯

@brianmouland209 Год назад

But without the championship teams

@trevor8493 Год назад

Perfect analogy

@IrishHooligan86 7 лет назад

It took 25 years after his death for the leafs to figure out how to build a team the correct way and in 2017 us leaf fans finally have something to cheer for. Sure there was moments within the early to mid 90's and early 2000's that seen competitive leaf teams but nothing to compete with the best

@noisespektrum5416 6 лет назад

Leafs went to the final 4 in in 1993 and 94. the 2017 Leafs didnt get out of the 1st round of the Playoffs and were the number 8 seed going in even with the number 1 draft pick and rookie of the year.

@aaronlusanko6356 6 лет назад

Dennis Fredericks early 90s they stunk, 2993-1995 when they had a good team was the mid 90s, not the early 90s.

@noisespektrum5416 6 лет назад

they went to the final 4 in the 92-93 season, thats early 90s. 95 was a lockout year, leafs did nothing in 95

@aaronlusanko6356 6 лет назад

NoiseSpektrum actually leafs made the playoffs in 95, 95 was a half season.

@aaronlusanko6356 6 лет назад

NoiseSpektrum also I consider the early 90s the 89/90 season, the 90/91 season, and the 91/92 season. 93 considered by a lot of people is really close too the mid 90s.

@powerhouse9868 Год назад

2:52 "as much as $17.00 a ticket" in 1980 is equal to $66.44 in 2023.

@altfactor 2 года назад

Didn't an abbreviated version of this story (cut down to about eleven minutes) run on CBS's "60 Minutes", spotlighting the controversies he engendered?

@riseofthesugars5312 3 года назад

04:44 This guy should be the New York Islanders GM.

@MapleSyrupPoet 5 месяцев назад

Very good host, interviewer ...Harold quite an interesting character ...need more Harolds 😅

@michaelcanney7218 4 года назад

Ballard and eagleson, 2 clowns made for each other, shake your hand, count your fingers

@channerattoyota1 5 лет назад

Love that King Clancy

@hollywoodhh5646 Год назад

As bad as ballard was he won more than MLSE, ballard was better than MLSE and he wasnt even trying to win

@stevethompson6059 2 месяца назад

Had the pleasure of meeting with Mr Ballard and King Clancy also Leonard Red Kelly

@johannadayy4770 3 года назад

Im in love with fifth estate

@pikeman80 2 года назад

Ballard wasn't into winning. He was into making as much money as he could for himself And if anyone wanted more money he got rid of them and brought in kids because they were cheaper. He also knows that people will fill the stands even if they lose every game.... Oh....and Don is just a nickname for Mr. Cherry. His first name is actually Donkey

@cityhawk 2 года назад

No surprise that both of them lead losers.

@charleybarley7148 Год назад

He basically said as much, yes. Lmao.

@colinvawter512 2 года назад

0:51 1 season at 500 during your whole tenure. All other seasons were below😂

@os2kouhai331 2 года назад

It's hard to believe that the Leafs had more playoff success during the Ballard era compared to now

@dannythomas417 Год назад

@@os2kouhai331 But Lemaire ruined us.

@scottalexander9853 18 дней назад

1700 a seat now is more like it!

@stevethompson6059 2 месяца назад

Mr.Ballard is more hournerble than Larry Tannenbaum and this slick Salesman Munson Campbell

@alightintheblack 3 года назад

17:19 - Walt McKechnie thrilled to be part of the circus.

@mrveritas700 Год назад

Imagine Harold being around today....IE rainbow flag....lol

@walterdavies6434 6 месяцев назад

@1:53 His suit matches the wallpaper

@MapleSyrupPoet Год назад

Ohhh, that Sittler jersey would be sweet to have #27

@UncleBuZ Год назад

4:39 I was at that game

@MichaelB1979 Год назад

Wow!!! Great insight. I loved this

@annalisavajda252 Год назад

Fast forward a few decades Don Cherry is fired for saying "you people...buy a poppy"

@BBQFanNo1 Год назад

Even Don Cherry was mellow compared to Harold Ballard.

@intercommerce 4 года назад

The old gaurd....

@fredgardiner6734 6 лет назад

Formula for success?

@majorsmythe1 5 лет назад

Guy was a self made man. Started his own skate company, then just bought stock and more and more. Then even more.

@kellismith4329 Год назад

@@majorsmythe1 yep, and as he said who cares what anyone thinks ?

@lisahardy9707 Год назад

Lol just casually utters the N word

@brianmouland209 Год назад

Once told Barbara Frum she had a great face for radio

@danielyoung6630 Год назад

The old CARLTON CASHBOX , maybe last time a WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT BOXING TITLE FIGHT was ever had in CANADA!

@bobbypaluga4346 6 лет назад

He’s one of the old time pricks that think expressing his ugliest thoughts is being honest and commendable. People have different sides, sure you feel like cussing out a driver that swerves into your lane, what good comes from doing so? The guy might have a gun and not take kindly to your words. Anyone can choose to act like a raging racist, most don’t. Any man can say ugly or vulgar words to a woman, most don’t. This guy has the money and power to get away with anything. I’m sure he’s six feet under now, but many will have taken his place.

@chazboner7041 4 года назад

Bobby Paluga go change your tampon

@reinadegrillos 7 лет назад

Despicable.

@glenw-xm5zf Год назад

punch Imlach should never been a coach.. for anyone

@kellismith4329 Год назад

Or a player, likely

@bcabskmbonqcnb Месяц назад

even in 21st century, leafs are cursed by ballard. shanahan is probably possessed by ballard's spirit.

@botchedonce7159 4 года назад

I always liked Adrienne Clarkson. She was a good newscaster.

@botchedonce7159 3 года назад

@Last chance Cowboy Forgot about that. Thnx. I guess they all are propagandists for the system. Mainstream anyway.

@kevinsheedy7157 Год назад

Adrienne Poy

@dnasty312 3 года назад

21:46 How about *fellow felon?*

@aussieaussie4848 3 года назад

How can one man make himself look like such a horrible condescending person without even brushing on who he really is..

@christopherlucy1772 2 года назад

Well that's true it was a great con man he conned the Smythss ? that must have been hard to do..

@stevethompson6059 2 месяца назад

Good job 🍇 got a 4year contract for 1 year job

@TheJhn924 2 года назад

Wow... Our former Governor General used the "N" word @ 20:52...

@calvinw8470 Год назад

u triggered?

@TheJhn924 Год назад

@@calvinw8470 No... just amused.

@calvinw8470 Год назад

@@TheJhn924 much more taboo nowadays

@joewasrippedoff8152 Год назад

Mel Brooks uses the N word in his movies how come he is not cancelled?

@TheJhn924 Год назад

@@joewasrippedoff8152 This Ballard interview and Mel Brooks movies were of the same era. The N word was never a good thing to say but racism was more out in the open back then... many still use this kind of language everyday but in private.

@LANDSEAAIRCANADA 7 лет назад

One Farking Bastage to be sure...

@stephenmiller2337 Год назад

Roger Neilson was too much of a class act for a clown like Ballard

@198634 6 лет назад

An absolute tyrant - but you gotta give the man credit for always speaking his mind and never taking back anything he said .

@dzanier 5 лет назад

i suppose i have to agree with the last part of what you said. but i don't think it's anything to be proud of. the willfulness of this individual was almost psychotic.

@stuartmcdonald5172 5 лет назад

Actually, the stupidity of this comment is one of the reasons why Ballard was able to get away with so much. The idea that you give someone credit for doing and saying terrible things and not backing down from them is utterly ridiculous.

@198634 5 лет назад

All good points and comments from you both but I think Ballard was so narcissistic that he was able to get away with it all .

@dickvandickweed 2 года назад

@@stuartmcdonald5172 100%. Nobody in the comments even mentioning Gordon Stuckless happened under this guy's watch. If there is such a thing as a human trashbag, its name would be Harold Ballard.