Blow Out the Candles July 15

Miracle Met Donn Clendenon was born in Neosho, Mo on this date in 1935.

1971 Topps #115

Did you know?:

Following his baseball career Donn earned a Juris Doctor degree and became a practicing lawyer.

Right Winger Ed Litzenberger was born in Neudorf, SK, Canada on this date in 1932.

Eddie won four straight Stanley Cups, 1961 with the Blackhawks and 1962, 1963, 1964 with the Maple Leafs.

Painter Rembrant Van Rijn was born in Leiden, Dutch Republic on this date in 1606.

Self-portrait

Another self portrait

The Mill

Behshazzar's Feast

10 time Grammy award winner Linda Ronstadt is celebrating her 66th birthday today.

Autographed Cards A-Z Hockey Edition J-L

When I got back into collecting five or so years ago one of the things that excited me was the availability of autographed cards.  Perhaps I went a little overboard but I think I picked up some nice cards.  This will be an A-Z series of posts with varying numbers of cards.

Doug was a mainstay on defense for the Blackhawks teams I grew up with.

 1968-69 Topps #13

I saw this certified auto after I had purchased the card above.

 2009 ITG#A-DJ

Jari is a five time Stanley Cup champion and was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2001

 2007 Parkhurst #51

Another Hall of Famer, Guy Lapointe won six Cups with Montreal in the 1970's.

 2001 Fleer Greats of the Game

Hall of Famer, "Terrible Ted" Lindsay won four Stanley Cups.

 2006-07 Ultimate Signatures #US-TL

After captaining the Blackhawks to their first Stanley Cup championship in over two decades, Eddie went on to win another three with the Maple Leafs.

1994 Parkhurst Missing Link #24

Blow Out the Candles July 15

Miracle Met Donn Clendenon was born in Neosho, Mo on this date in 1935.

1971 Topps #115

I coincidentally posted this card just a few days ago.

Did you know?:

Following his baseball career Donn earned a Juris Doctor degree and became a practicing lawyer.

Right Winger Ed Litzenberger was born in Neudorf, SK, Canada on this date in 1932.

Eddie won four straight Stanley Cups, 1961 with the Blackhawks and 1962, 1963, 1964 with the Maple Leafs.

Painter Rembrant Van Rijn was born in Leiden, Dutch Republic on this date in 1606.

Self-portrait

Another self portrait

The Mill

Behshazzar's Feast

10 time Grammy award winner Linda Ronstadt is 65 today.

1961 Stanley Cup Champions Honored

Last night the Blackhawks had a ceremony honoring the Blackhawks players from the 1960-61 Stanley Cup Championship team.  Eight (I think) of the old guys were introduced one-by-one including four Hall of Famers, Bobby Hull, Stan Mikita, Piere Pilote and Glenn Hall.  Rocky Wirtz and John McDonough have done a great job in bringing back the alumni over the last couple of years, after the previous Wirtz's antagonized them into exile.

Here are the signed cards I've managed to collect of players from that great team:

1960-61 Stanley Cup Champs Blackhawks Autographs

The Blackhawks have been limping toward the Stanley Cup playoffs, 4-4-2 in their last 10 games. Overall they've had a great season at 48-22-7. Hopefully they'll get hot and accomplish what the gentlemen from 1960-61, below, did -- that is bring the the Stanley Cup to Chicago.