Historical Hockey and Sports Memorabilia Auction December 2022
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 12/13/2022
A fabulous rendition of hockey's peerless innovator, Jacques Plante, graces the legend's official rookie card, one of the hobby's most popular and desirable. Jacques had already played parts of two seasons and been on three "action" Parkhurst cards the previous year when this card #50 was pulled from a pack. Crease-free example has rich and bold colors and received an EX 5 assessment from PSA and is encapsulated in a modern PSA holder which exhibits very minor scuffing and a few small scuff marks on its back. The back is intriguing in that it erroneously gives a birth date of "Feb. 19/31" instead of the correct Jan. 17/29, while revealing that Plante already had a reputation of being a roaming goaltender; the write-up concluding, "He likes to wander all over the ice, giving the coach a headache." Habs' coach Toe Blake's head was surely doing alright after Plante backstopped Montreal to a still record five consecutive Stanley Cup championships! Hockey historians will tell you that despite a potent lineup, the Canadiens' record would not have been possible without the stellar perennial performances of the one and only Jacques Plante.
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