Historical Hockey and Sports Memorabilia Auction Fall 2022
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Featuring a ticket stub for the majority of New York Rangers playoff contests from 1971 to 1985, with each game attended personally by noted journalist Allen Abel, we offer the ultimate Blueshirts playoff stub collection of 54 which includes stubs for each game of the 1972 and 1979 Stanley Cup finals! Included, we have; six stubs from 1970-71 (missing just Game 1 in New York vs Toronto, on April 7th, with two stubs for Game 6 vs Chicago on April 29th), including from the Quarterfinals - Game 2 vs Tor April 8 and Game 3 vs Tor April 13, from the Semifinals - Game 4 vs Chicago April 22, Game 5 vs Chicago April 2, and Game 6 vs Chicago April 29 (2); eleven stubs from 1971-72 (complete), including from the Quarterfinals - Game 1 vs Montreal April 5, Game 2 vs Montreal April 6, and Game 3 vs Montreal April 11 (2), from the Semifinals – Game 4 vs Chicago April 20 (2) and Game 5 vs Chicago April 23, from the finals – Game 6 vs Boston May 4, Game 7 vs Boston May 7 and Game 8 vs Boston May 11; six stubs from 1972-73 (complete), including from the Quarterfinals – Game 1 vs Boston April 7 (2, including a Penn Plaza Club stub) and Game 2 vs Boston April 8, from the semifinals – Game 3 vs Chicago April 17 (3 stubs, two for Abel’s regular seats, along with a “mezzanine” stub) and Game 4 vs Chicago April 19; six stubs from 1973-74 (complete), including from the Quarterfinals – Game 1 vs Montreal April 13, Game 2 vs Montreal April 14 and Game 3 vs Montreal April 18, from the Semifinals – Game 4 vs Philly April 25, Game 5 vs Philly April 28 and Game 6 vs Philly May 2; eight stubs from 1978-79, including from the Preliminary Round Game 1 vs LA April 10 (2), from the Quarterfinals – Game 2 vs Philly April 20 (2) and Game 3 vs Philly April 22 (2), from the finals – Game 1 vs Montreal May 17 and Game 2 vs Montreal May 19 (these are both box office ticket stubs, as opposed to season’s tickets – there is also a stub for the close-circuit telecast of May 3, Boston vs Montreal); four stubs from 1979-80 (complete), including from the Preliminary Round – Game 1 vs Atlanta April 8 and Game 2 vs Atlanta April 9, from the Quarterfinals – Game 3 vs Philly April 19 and Game 4 vs Philly April 20; five stubs from 1981-82 (complete), including from the Division Semifinals – Game 1 vs Philly April 7 and Game 2 vs Philly April 8, from the Division Finals – Game 3 vs NY April 18, Game 4 vs NY April 19 and Game 5 vs NY April 23; four stubs from 1982-83 (complete), including from the Division Semifinals - Game 1 vs Philly April 9, Division Finals - Game 2 vs NY April 17, Game 3 vs NY April 18 and Game 3 vs NY April 22; two stubs from 1983-84 (complete) with Game 1 vs NY April 7 and Game 2 vs NY April 8; one stub from 1984-85 (complete) with Game 1 vs Philly April 13. We should also note that each ticket is listed by home game – NOT numbered playoff games. The bulk show wear commensurate with their former use, with many sporting a rough-torn edge, along with many also having scores and handwritten notations on the reverses.
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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