Herb Carnegie on his life as a hockey player

There's an arena and public school named after him in Toronto yet, Herb Carnegie has his share of stories to tell about what it was like playing hockey as a black man in the late 30's.  Born in Toronto to Jamaican parents, Carnegie was the first African-Canadian hockey player to be offered an opportunity to play in the National Hockey League.  As an African-Canadian playing hockey in the 1940s and 1950s, Carnegie endured his share of racism. In one famous 1938 incident, Conn Smythe, the owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs, watched Carnegie play as a member of the Toronto Young Rangers. He is alleged to have said either that he would accept Carnegie on the team if he were white or that he would pay $10,000 to anyone who could turn Carnegie white. Herb Carnegie spoke with Dave Trafford on Toronto at Noon on Monday February 18th, 2008.