Baseball: Catfish Hunter. Loved watching him with the A's, and then becoming the linchpin that resuscitated the Yankees franchise. I mailed a fan letter to his home in North Carolina in the winter of 1976, along with a ball to be autographed and a $20 money order to cover return postage to Canada. Three months later, the autographed ball, a gorgeous signed 8x10 photo and the UNCASHED money order arrived in my mailbox, along with a brief signed handwritten note thanking me for taking an interest in his career.
Hockey: Cards and ephemera from the debut season of the World Hockey Association (1972-73). Bobby Hull's defection from the NHL 's Chicago Black Hawks to the WHA's Winnipeg Jets gave the rebel league instant credibility and resulted in a historic court ruling that declared the "reserve clause" in NHL contracts illegal, thus changing the landscape for every major North American sport.
Boxing: Cards of the lineal world heavyweight champions from John L. Sullivan to the second coming of George Foreman.
Misc: Cards, photos, programs and tickets of Evel Knievel. Along with Muhammad Ali, one of the true cultural icons of the 1970s.
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