Maple Leaf Rag about the sales of the "Maple Leaf Rag", for example that 1 million copies of the sheet music were sold in the composer's lifetime, making Scott Joplin the first musician to sell 1 million copies of a piece of instrumental music. Joplin's first biographer Rudi Blesh wrote that during its first six months the piece sold 75,000 copies, and became "the first great instrumental sheet music hit in America". However, research by Joplin's later biographer Edward A. Berlin demonstrated that this was not the case; the initial print-run of 400 took one year to sell, and under the terms of
Maple Leaf Gardens This marked the first official Leafs event in the building since the last Leafs game played there in 1999 nineteen years to the day. Maple Leaf Gardens was named a National Historic Site of Canada in 2007 because it was: The arena was also designated under the "Ontario Heritage Act" by the City of Toronto in 1991. A list of other teams using Maple Leaf Gardens as their home: Maple Leaf Gardens Maple Leaf Gardens is a historic building located at the northwest corner of Carlton Street and Church Street in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The building was initially constructed as