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Donald Stewart "Don" Cherry (born February 5, 1934) is a Canadian ice hockey commentator for CBC Television. He is a sports writer, as well as a retired professional hockey player and NHL coach. Cherry co-hosts the "Coach's Corner" intermission segment (with Ron MacLean) on the long-running Canadian sports program ''Hockey Night in Canada'', and has also worked for ESPN in the United States as a commentator during the latter stages of the Stanley Cup playoffs. Nicknamed Grapes, he is a Canadian icon known for his outspoken manner, flamboyant dress, and staunch Canadian nationalism. Cherry played one game with the Boston Bruins, and later coached the team for five seasons after concluding a successful playing career in the American Hockey League. He is also well known as an author, syndicated radio commentator for the Sportsnet Radio Network, creator of the ''Rock'em Sock'em Hockey'' video series, and celebrity endorser. Cherry was voted the seventh greatest Canadian on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's television special, ''The Greatest Canadian''. In March 2010, his life was dramatized in a two-part Canadian Broadcasting Corporation made-for-television movie, ''Keep Your Head Up, Kid: The Don Cherry Story'', based on a script written by his son, Timothy Cherry. In March 2012, CBC aired a sequel, ''The Wrath of Grapes: The Don Cherry Story II''. ==Early life and family== Cherry was born in Kingston, Ontario (later moving to Belleville, Ontario to attend Centennial Secondary School) to Delmar (Del) and Maude Cherry. His paternal grandfather, John T. (Jack) Cherry, was an original member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and a Great Lakes ship captain. His maternal grandfather, Richard Palamountain, was a British orphan of Cornish parentage who was emigrated to Canada as one of the Home Children. The name Palamountain is a corruption of the Cornish language 'pol-mun-tyr' meaning 'pool by the mineral land'.〔White, G. Pawley, A Handbook of Cornish Surnames.〕 Palamountain was also a veteran of the Canadian Expeditionary Force. Cherry's father Del was an amateur athlete and worked as an electrician with the Canadian Steamship Lines.〔 On the March 15, 2008 edition of Coach's Corner, Cherry wore the green and gold colours of County Kerry, Ireland. In his segment following the game, he claimed ancestry from that region. Cherry's younger brother, Dick Cherry played hockey at various levels, including two seasons in the National Hockey League with the Philadelphia Flyers.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Hockey Hall of Fame )〕 In his first year with the Bears, he met his future wife Rosemarie (Rose) Cherry ''née'' Madelyn Martini (born 1935 in Hershey, Pennsylvania). Rose was hugely influential in Don's life—because of Don's minor-league hockey lifestyle, they moved 53 times; they rarely had decent housing or furnishings, and Don was often away playing during major events, such as the birth of their daughter and first child, Cindy Cherry.〔 Six years after Cindy's birth, Rose gave birth to son Tim Cherry.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Cherry: Has He Gone Too Far? )〕 When Tim needed a kidney transplant at age 13, Cindy donated one of hers. The two currently live across the street from each other, around the corner from their father, in Mississauga. Rose died of liver cancer on June 1, 1997 and in honour of her perseverance, Don created Rose Cherry's Home for Kids.〔 Her name has motivated Cherry to always wear a rose on his lapel. Cherry contributed in developing (Rose Cherry's Home for Kids ) which has since been renamed to The Darling Home for Kids, in Milton, Ontario. The Hershey Centre in Mississauga, Ontario is located on "Rose Cherry Place," a street named for his late wife. In 1999, Don married his second wife, Luba. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Don Cherry」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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