GORDIE HOWE - QUESTIONNAIRE SIGNED 05/10/1996 - HFSID 287023

GORDIE HOWE
He has signed and also hand printed his name on a questionnaire about his life and tastes, filling in the answers with the same blue felt tip pen
Questionaire signed: "G Howe", 1 page, 8½x11. No place, 1996 May 10. Howe has answered 20 questions about his life and tastes, including some surprising answers. (Howe shows himself a baseball fan by listing Al Kaline as his favorite athlete and the Babe [Ruth] as the person he would most like to meet. He lists his wife Colleen (d. 2009) as his famous writer, and judiciously declines to answer the question as to O. J. Simpson's guilt or innocence. Gordie Howe (1928-2016), one of the most prolific scorers in the history of the game, starred with the Detroit Red Wings from 1946-1971. The winner of six NHL scoring titles (1951-1954, 1957, 1963) and six MVP Awards (1952, 1953, 1957, 1958, 1960, 1963), his combined USHL-NHL-WHL records at his retirement in 1980 included 975 goals, 1,383 assists and 2,358 points. He scored at least 20 goals in 27 consecutive seasons. With the Red Wings, Howe won four Stanley Cups (1950, 1952, 1954, and 1955). When Howe, on the NHL Hartford Whalers, retired at the age of 52, he was the oldest player ever to play major league hockey. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1972. His legacy lives on with the infamous Gordie Howe hat trick: a goal, an assist, and a fight in a single game. In 2008, Howe was named the first recipient of the NHL Lifetime Achievement Award. Fine condition.