Gretzky: Simply the Best

GRETZKY: Move Over Bobby Orr, Here Comes GRETZKY

Another press milestone for Wayne Gretzky was when he earned a chapter in a Hockey Book. The photo above is the first of the 3 pages he was designated. The author was especially prophetic in naming the Chapter: Move Over Bobby Orr, Here Comes GRETZKY.

The photo above is from a ProStars baseball tournament and Wayne is actually getting an autograph from Bobby Orr.

The one below was taken in the backyard rink, at the family home in Brantford.

GRETZKY: HIS FIRST PRESS COVERAGE

No. 9 with big No. 9 aspirations. By JOHN IABONI...Toronto Telegram

My first significant press coverage took place in Brantford at the rink. The reporter John Iaboni, came to watch me play a hockey game and then wrote the following Story. It was published in the Toronto Telegram October 28, 1971. Once again I was very lucky because the Telegram Newspaper actually folded on or close to October 30th, 1971. If it had folded a couple of days sooner, it is unlikely my story would ever have been told.

GRETZKY Collector's or Poster fans for bad behavior?

If there is one thing I have observed as a hobbyist who also sells items from my Wayne Gretzky Collection, it is how so many of 99's, "item worshipers", are his complete antithesis. In a world that rarely holds shock value for me, initially this defied even my logic?? For some unknown reason, I expected more from those who spend large sums of money just to have a piece of, "His Greatness", on display! Somewhere along the way I erroneously concluded that Gretzky Collectors might pay more than lip service to the very traits that make Wayne a Legend in his own time.