This lot is closed. Bidding ended on 5/31/2012.
After his retirement in 1999, The Great One was immediately inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame. The NHL retired his jersey number 99 league-wide, making him the only player to receive this honor. This jersey comes to us directly from Orel Hershiser. As told to us by Orel, he went to a Kings game in Los Angeles in 1989-90 and after the game, visited with Wayne Gretzky in the Kings locker room. Gretzky gave Orel the shirt off his back from that game. What provenance could be better?...from one super star’s hands to another’s. Inside the rear collar is the “Maska Ultrafil” tag with size “54” written in blue ink. Inside the rear right tail is a strip tag with “99” embroidered in black. Adjacent is a Velcro swatch, patented on Gretzky gamers as he tucked one half of his sweater into his pants. On front is the team large embroidered crest with “LOS ANGELES KINGS”. Adjacent on the left chest is the Captain’s “C” done in grey on black tackle twill. Player number “99” appears on the back in grey on black tackle twill and on both sleeves in grey on white tackle twill. Player name “GRETZKY” appears across the back in grey on black tackle twill on a white nameplate. On both outer rear tails are the “NHL” and “CCM” embroidered logo’s. The jersey is properly tagged, was presented to us as game-used and in our opinion, shows excellent use with stick marks on front. Accompanied by a LOA from Orel Hershiser as well as a LOA from Casey Samuelson.