Career
Fitsell was the founding president of the Society for International Hockey Research. He has written five books:
Hockey"s Captains, Colonels and Kings (Boston Mills Press, 1987)
Hockey"s Hub: Three Centuries of Hockey in Kingston (with Mark Potter, Quarry Heritage Books, 2003)
How Hockey Happened (Quarry Press, 2007)
Captain James T. Sutherland - The Grand Old Manitoba of Hockey (Quarry Heritage Books, 2012)
In 2006, the Society for International Hockey Research presented him with the Brian McFarlane Award for outstanding research and writing.