News — Garnet Bailey
An Ace In The Drawer
Posted by Will Elmore on
By John Council For the better part of three decades, Ace Bailey's 1975 NHL hockey card sat in the top drawer of a dresser in my childhood bedroom. The card was extremely cheap, so bad that it had perforated edges where it had once been attached to other cards presumably featuring other members of the St. Louis Blues. Still, this object caught my attention every time I saw it among the broken Hot Wheels cars and cap guns I'd stuffed in this junk drawer. In it, Bailey's flowing blonde hair is poking out of a white helmet (something that was...