Historical Hockey and Sports Memorabilia Auction Fall 2022
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 9/20/2022
Featuring vintage 1960s/70s Blueshirts programs and snapshot photos that all originate from the career of longtime sports journalist Allen Abel, this lot also offers additional items including pucks. Totaling 16, mostly from the late-60s, the programs also include a playoffs example, with the majority showing the intact line-ups. The snap shots photos all seem to hail from the 1970s (mainly the 100th anniversary in 1976) and include images from warmups at MSG, with players to include Esposito, Vickers, Duguay, Soetaert, Murdoch, Hedberg, Markham, Davidson, the Maloneys, and many others. The pucks include a high-grade 1970s Viceroy with Rubberized crest, three matching 1970s Rangers practice pucks with a small note listing a date, team and player for each (it is assumed that these were given to Abel in his role covering the sport), and a 2014 Stadium Series Official Game Puck sealed in the original container with a hologram from the NHL. Rounding out the lot, there is also a 1994 Rangers Stanley Cup button, vintage key chain and a 1983 letter on NHL letterhead for Rangers season ticket holders sent to Abel's wife with the original envelope.
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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