This is Captain James T. Sutherland. He was a shoe salesman by trade and a veteran of the First World War. But he would best define himself in the world of hockey - as a notable referee, a long time member of the Ontario Hockey Association's executive committee, and perhaps most famously as the creator of the Hockey Hall of Fame. In 1938 Major League Baseball created the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. Sutherland almost immediately began his campaign to see hockey get it's own Hall of Fame. By 1943 Sutherland's unrelenting drive succeeded. The National Hockey League and the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association created the International Hockey Hall of Fame. Two years later, the inaugural class was inducted (Hobey Baker, Charlie Gardiner, Eddie Gerard, Frank McGee, Howie Morenz, Tommy Phillips, Harvey Pulford, Hod Stuart and Georges Vezina, along with builders Lord Stanley and Sir Montagu Allan.) However the Hall had no physical location. Sutherland d...