"When I got to Chicago in the fall of 1957 and they pitched the No. 16
jersey to me for my first game as a pro, I was delighted for two
reasons," said Hull, Chris Chelios Authentic Jersey who will turn 79 on Jan. 3. "First, I'd made a boyhood dream come true
that I was in the NHL. And second, I would represent the city of Chicago
and the Blackhawks and wear that beautiful crimson jersey."
From 1957-72, Hull wore the Blackhawks' uniform for 1,036 regular-season
games and 116 more in the Stanley Cup Playoffs. He was a member of
Chicago's 1961 Stanley Cup championship team.
The legendary Blackhawks jersey Clark Griswold Authentic Jersey was designed for the 1956-57 season by Dorothy Ivan, wife of then-team
vice president and general manager Tommy Ivan.
The team opted to modify the Blackhawks sweater not long after Ivan's
arrival in Chicago from the Detroit Red Wings in 1954. To that point, it
had featured a small Native American head inside a circle with the
team's city and nickname above and below it.
Dorothy Ivan, a former golf champion in Detroit, had an artistic flair
that she applied to her redesign of the Blackhawks' uniform, adding the
double tomahawk CM Punk Authentic Jersey shoulder patches that still appear.
"I don't think there's another jersey in pro sports that can compete
with the Chicago Blackhawks crimson with Pierre Pilote's picture on it,"
Hull said with a laugh, recycling an old gag that he and Hall share
about a resemblance they believe their late Blackhawks teammate had with
the team's logo.
It was a joke that Pilote, a Hall of Fame defenseman, enjoyed immensely.
Hall, who came to the Blackhawks in a trade with the Red Wings in 1957,
says the Chicago jersey voted No. 1 by fans "is the nicest of any that
I've seen. I loved to put it on."
