Historical Hockey and Sports Memorabilia Auction February 2025
Containing hours and hours of enthralling hockey information, stories and stats, this massive lot contains a total of approximately two hundred and fifteen plus (215+) hockey and others sports magazines and publications that all hail from the personal collection of famed Hockey Hall of Fame journalist, Frank Brown. Dating as far back as the early-1960s and as new as the mid-to-late-2010s, the group includes issues of magazines such as; Goal: The Official National Hockey League Magazine, The Hockey News, Sports Digest, Action Sports Hockey, Sports Special: Hockey, Sports Extra: Hockey, Sport Heroes, Sports Special Pro Football, Hockey: Sports Stars of 1975, Face-Off, Hockey Illustrated, Hockey Annual, Action Sports: Pro Football, Sports Scene, Complete Sports, Sports Illustrated, The Hockey Hall of Fame, Beckett Hockey Card Monthly, Hockey Pictorial and more. Profiling star players of the eras over their covers, including names such as Jean Beliveau, Bobby Hull, Bobby Orr, Bobby Clarke, Phil Esposito, Glenn Hall, Mario Lemieux, Eric Lindros, Mike Bossy, Stan Mikita, Gordie Howe, Henri Richard, Guy Lafleur and numerous others, the group also includes various game programs, with notables being from the 1975 Stanley Cup Playoffs, first game at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto and 2017 Stanley Cup Finals. With the condition of the group generally perceived to be good or better while some of the included issues spread throughout do show issues such as folds, creases, small tears, torn/detached covers, pen marks/written notations, toning, stains and other common issues, the group is sure to enhance any hockey/sports library and comes with a Classic Auctions LOA.
Publishing his first paid hockey article in a New York Rangers game program in 1970 that earned him a total of fifty ($50) dollars, from there, Frank Brown began his career as a journalist for The Associated Press, typically covering the Montreal Canadiens. Under the leadership of Stan Fischler, Brown stated he learned the "courage of my convictions" after being handed Gordie Howe's phone number. Moving on to the New York Daily News in 1980, where he would remain until 1998, when he joined the National Hockey League as a communication executive, a position he would hold with the league until his retirement in 2018. He was awarded the Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award by the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2019.
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