SUMMARY: This offering is a scarce
color photograph of the 'celebratiopn' of the 198 Olympic Hockey
Team signed by coach Herb Brooks.
Herbert Paul "Herb"
Brooks, Jr. (1937 – 2003).
Brooks was an American ice hockey coach, best known for coaching
the U.S. hockey team to a gold medal at the 1980 Winter Olympics
in an event known as the 'Miracle on Ice'.On November 13, 2006,
Brooks was posthumously inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame.
Brooks played hockey at the University
of Minnesota and was a member of the 1964 and 1968 United States
Olympic teams. He almost made the 1960 Olympic team, only to
be cut the week before the Olympic games started. He then sat
at home and watched the team he almost made win the gold medal.
Later, he coached the University of Minnesota Golden Gophers
hockey team to three NCAA championships (1974, 1976, and 1979).
This offering is an 8 in x 10
in color photograph of the beginning of the 'celebration of the
win against the Soviet Union at Lake Placid by our Olympic Hockey
Team. It is signed Herb Brooks "gold: '80 in
black sharpie.Brooks signed only rarely so his autograph in any
form is scarce.
Price: $OLD
All items sold by the History
Buff, Inc. come with documentation and a certified
opinion as to authenticity.
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