Historical Hockey and Sports Memorabilia Auction Fall 2022
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 9/20/2022
Highlighted by a rare inaugural game program from the New York Raiders short-lived franchise along with a pair of ticket stubs, this lot offers a group of WHA items totaling 13, with programs, a media guide, scorecards and more. Included, we have the aforementioned October 12, 1973 Raiders first-game program and two ticket stubs (the program shows wear with the line-up detached and marks to the cover, with creases and staples to the ticket stubs as they were originally stapled to the cover), a Dec 17, 1972 first-season Raiders program with ticket stub stapled to the line-up, a Sept 23, 1973 "Hockey Spectacular" program (this event featured the Blades, Whalers, Aeros and Jets playing 15-minute intervals, with this Gordie Howe's first time playing in the WHA, with a leaflet from the game included signed by Howe and Bobby Hull), a Golden Blades program with insert signed by Bobby Hull and Harry Howell, a 1978-79 Oilers program from Gretzky's seventh game as an Oiler, a Dec 2, 1977 Jets vs Whalers program with Abel's Whalers pass stapled to the interior, a 1978-79 Nordiques program, and first-season Raiders media guide. The collection also includes a Golden Blades bumper sticker and two Nordiques score cards, along with a few additional hockey programs, with a 1968-69 Junior Canadiens program, a 1970-71 OHA Toronto Marlboros playoff program with stub stapled to the interior, 1970 Cornell vs the US National Team program with stapled stub, and a 1970-71 EHL Clinton Comets program with stapled stub. All items hail from the collection of longtime journalist Allen Abel.
Covering the world's greatest sporting endeavors for half a century which included serving for a decade on Capitol Hill and in the briefing room of the White House, longtime journalist, sports columnist, producer and on-air television correspondent Allen Abel has traveled to over one hundred countries, witnessing epic battles and accomplishments from the press box; from Ali vs Fraser, to the Miracle On Ice, the genesis of Gretzky, to the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Winning six National Magazine awards for political, travel and sports writing as a contributor to numerous publications including Sports Illustrated and Maclean's, Abel was also an on-air host, narrator, writer or producer on dozens of documentaries for HBO, Discovery, National Geographic, Hockey Night in Canada, the CBC and others. Abel has also authored a number of non-fiction works including 'The Short Life of Hughie McLoon — A True Story of Baseball, Magic, and Murder'
We are pleased to offer a number of desirable and seldom-seen items from Abel's personal 50-year sporting journey, including programs, media guides, tickets, press passes, autographs and much more, along with an impressive grouping of Olympic material personally acquired while working at a dozen Olympic Games.
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