Historical Hockey Memorabilia Auction Fall 2020
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 10/20/2020
Selected 3rd overall by the St. Louis Blues in the 1978 NHL Amateur Draft, Wayne Babych spent six seasons in The Gateway to the West, with additional time skating for Quebec, Pittsburgh and Hartford. This Blues jersey is photo-matched to Babych’s career-best season of 1980-81 where he notched 96 points including 54 goals. We believe it was also worn earlier by Babych with the Blues as the jersey was recycled for him from an older set, with Jack Brownschidle in 1977-78 the last player to wear the #10 for the Blues before Babych’s rookie season in 1978-79. A Rawlings label with “50” sizing sits adjacent to a number “10” swatch, with an intact loop-style fight strap. Styled with the iconic blue note team crest, “10” appears over the sleeves and verso in layered tackle twill, with “Babych” across the affixed nameplate in matching material. Hailing from the personal collection of an important hockey executive, his signed LOA will accompany.
The jersey shows nice game-use, with fabric pulls, scuffs and scrapes to the material over the front along with small areas of discolouration, with burn marks over each shoulder. There is light pilling to the interior, with a pair of team repairs over the reverse as well as examples over the right (2) and left (1) sleeves. There are also rust stains within the collar, most likely from spending lengthy time on a metal hanger. An included numeric image from the 1980-81 season with Brian Sutter and Bernie Federko clearly shows the exact position of the linear puckering fold mark on the lower portion of the team crest, as well as additional linear puckering fold marks in the team crest. This image is also showing the exhaustive puckering to the "0" of "10" on the right sleeve, and also seems to be showing the burn mark on the lower right shoulder.
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