February 23, 2005
Gordie Howe
I was quite a slob as a kid (heh, some things never change), and it drove my father crazy. The condition of my bedroom was a constant battle. One night when we were leaving a game, I was getting Mike Gartner's autograph and my father said "Mike, tell her to clean her room."
And Gartner did.
That started a tradition of sorts, and I kept upping the ante...so Mike Gartner told me to clean my room. It's not like the request came from Gordie Howe...
I can't find the Gartner autograph, and several others. That's the irony of this collection of "clean your room" notes...if I had cleaned my room, such treasures would not have been mixed in with junk and lost. But I managed to keep track of the most special one (and who knew that Gartner'd be in the Hall of Fame?)
Anyway:
Twenty-three year old ball point pen doesn't scan so well...you can click the image to see it bigger. And Wes Unseld...well, my dad got this autograph for me at the 1982 NHL All-Star game at the Cap Centre, and Unseld was there as part of the Washington sports dignitary contingent. My father thought it would be a mite rude to not get his autograph too, since he was staning right next to Howe and all, although at the time I was spectacularly unimpressed.
Posted by Nic at February 23, 2005 07:31 AM