This lot is closed. Bidding ended on 5/31/2012.
Significant and important signed program from the 20th Annual Hickok Belt Award Dinner held to honor famed NY Mets pitcher Tom Seaver as the 1969 Professional Athlete of the Year and present him with the "S. Rae Hickok Professional Athlete of the Year Award." The program is also accompanied by a Hickok Award tie bar belonging to one of the attendees/ past winners of this prestigious award and manufactured by the Hickok Manufacturing Company, Rochester, NY whose founder is who the Award is named. The 4 leaf program measures 8.5” x 11 and is signed by 27 attendees including Tom Seaver, Joe Louis and Carmen Basilio, Otto Graham, Alan Page; Lamar Hunt; Carl Hubbell; Bowie Kuhn and legendary track and field / Olympic Champion Jesse Owens. Other notables signed onto this program are Bob Prince; Bob Turley and Otis Taylor. EX+ overall showing signs of being folded. Accompanied by a Hickok Award tie bar. The signatures are accompanied by a LOA from JSA.