| Thursday 22 January 2009 |
| ...more on Bobby Clarke |
 I have just done a little more research into our Bobby Clarke (last post) and am pretty certain now that this is him (compare the photos...yes?) According to Wikipedia:
"One of the game's great leaders, Clarke was the captain of the notorious Broad Street Bullies during their heyday in the mid-1970s in sports 1970s. The Bullies were a reflection of their captain, who had a tireless work ethic, a strong will to win, a chippy side to him that often saw him deliver a cheap shot, only to have his bigger teammates finish what he started, and a willingness to do anything it took to win even if it meant bending the rules. The latter, some say, is exemplified best by Clarke's infamous slash to the ankle of Valeri Kharlamov during the Summit Series in 1972, which is still the source of controversy to the present day."
Recently I find more and more that little pop-culture references lead me to research little historical events that I would otherwise have never known about. Part of this is ignorance on my part, but it's also due to the relative obscurity of events like the 1972 Summit Series (ice hockey?! ICE HOCKEY?!) But having read the above quote from Wikipedia (thanks Wikipedia! Mwah x) I googled Valeri Khalamov, and can honestly say that I am one enlightened soul. I am confident that I know enough about the 1972 Summit Series to hold my own if approached by some nasty commie in the steam room. Red fiends. |
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| Find #002 |
 In amongst the piles of stuff that I have next to my desk is an old blue card-file that I got for $10 at a flea market in New York. Each compartment has something different stuffed inside - the first ten have military patches, the second ten bubble gum stickers and the rest have just got random bits like these tickets. I've put them in together because this is how they came out of the file.
The green ticket is a train ticket, but it doesn't say where for, which is a shame. The other small piece of paper is the seal from a packet of cigarettes but you can't tell what type/brand of cigarettes. Wow - interesting evidence abounds... The larger piece of paper is a photograph cut from a newspaper of a guy called Bobby Clarke. I've looked him up and I reckon that this is Bobby Clarke, a famous Canadian ice hockey player. There's no other mention of hockey, and no other hockey pictures in the whole file, so I don't know what made the owner of the file cut out this particular picture.
I'm not so good at spinning stories around these finds huh?
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