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Collector's World 0108
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SOLVING MYSTERY OF KING McCOURT
The 1979-80 O-Pee-Chee series includes a card of Dale McCourt in a Los Angeles Kings’ uniform, a team he never played for. The 198081 O-Pee-Chee series has a card of Doug Risebrough which is clearly Serge Savard. Are these cards valuable collectors’ items? Paul Foote St. John’s, Nfld. Since both cards are uncorrected errors, the are not particularity valuable. Both cards are considered commons and worth no more than a quarter in near-mint condition. McCourt’s photo was airbrushed to put him in a Kings’ uniform because he was awarded to Los Angeles as compensation for Detroit’s signing of free agent Marcel Dionne. However, McCourt refused to go to L.A., and different compensation was worked out for the Dionne signing. I have had for some time The Hockey Album published in 1948. How accurate is…
RANDOM THOUGHTS
Just because The Hockey News Collectors World is taking a few months off for the summer doesn’t mean you should, too. We won’t be publishing again until September but if you’re a hockey card collector, there are a few things you should be doing this summer to build on your collection. A guaranteed investment would be to go out and buy a case of Upper Deck High Number French cards. The value of those cases has gone up more than tenfold in the past two months. But since most of you don’t have an extra $10,000 lying around (and even if you did, wouldn’t you rather spend it on something a little more important like your mortgage or education?) here are some other suggestions for summertime buys. ⋆ Bowman cards. Yes, I know…
FELIX AND THE KIDD
Trevor Kidd can’t possibly help whistling Me and My Shadow when he thinks of Felix Potvin. Kidd and Potvin are the two finest goalies to emerge from the Canadian Hockey League in some time and they have been playing their own cat-and-mouse game for the last season. It’s a sign of things to come at the NHL level. The relationship between Kidd and Potvin goes back to last August when both attended an evaluation camp for Canada’s national junior team. Both were invited to return to a pretournament training camp last December. And when it became obvious they had both made the team, they spent practices trying to outshine each other. The duo became inseparable. They were roommates. They joked. They shared goaltending secrets. Dick Todd, head coach of the national junior squad,…
GEORGE BRETT
Hobbies for professional athletes can be dangerous. Look where football, for example, got Bo Jackson. George Brett’s hobby is not as hazardous as that of Jackson, his former Kansas City Royals’ teammate. All Brett has to do to indulge is flip on his fax machine, take the Mercedes for a spin or hop on a jetliner. At any of those moments, Brett is transported to his sidelight as part-owner of the Western League and Memorial Cup champion Spokane Chiefs. Among a nine-man ownership group, Brett and his brother Bobby hold the controlling interest. For Bobby, the active owner, it’s a labor of love. He’s the Chiefs’ governor, their hands-on guy. For George, it’s just pure fun. “I get to enjoy it while Bobby has to work at it,” Brett said. “I don’t make any of…
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