The 2009 Montreal Centennial Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/24/2009
These vintage magazines originally obtained from the Rocket's family include three Forum programs from his rookie season featuring lineups with him wearing No. 15. These programs, as well as two more from the following season, have had clippings or pages removed. A Richard story appears in English and French copies of a 1945 Canadian army bulletin. A Boston Garden program from his 50-goal season that has had its cover removed is among three 1940s road programs. Three Forum programs from the 1940s include two that have had their covers removed. Another pair from the 1950s are fully intact. Richard is featured in a 1949 How We Play Hockey booklet and a 1955 Readers Digest proof cover has an illustration of the Rocket scoring a goal. Two Sport Magazine issues include one with a Richard cover and another that has had the first pages of a Habs feature removed. Early-1950s issues of Inside Sports and Sports Illustrated each include a Richard feature. Beliveau is on the cover of a 1956 SI issue whose Canadiens feature has unfortunately been cut. Richard is listed as a referee in a 1958 oldtimers program and appears on the cover of a 1971 issue of The Canadian Magazine. A couple of Canadiens oldtimers programs from the late-1970s are included, along with a script for the shooting of the 1999 TV mini-series about the Rocket. Special edition magazines issued in the wake of his death in 2000 and a Richard calendar round out this unique lot.
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