GUEST: My uncle worked for Arthur Wirtz, who owned the team in the '60s and '70s.
APPRAISER: And it was gifted?
GUEST: Yes, it was Stan Mikita's hockey stick. It has his name and then his number on the other side, and it was the '74-'75 Blackhawks.
APPRAISER: Okay, now they weren't very good that year.
GUEST: Correct.
APPRAISER: But the Chicago Blackhawks these days are a very popular team. One of their prominent players is Hall-of-Famer Stan Mikita, and here you have a Stan Mikita game-used and signed hockey stick, and Stan Mikita, as you know, invented the curvature on the heads of the hockey sticks. The story goes that he and fellow Hall-of-Famer Robbie Hall were practicing, his stick broke, he was very upset. Hit a shot and couldn't believe the velocity...
GUEST: Like whoa!
APPRAISER: Exactly, we have the '74-'75 hockey team, the Blackhawks, all of their signatures on the stick. Most prominently, we see Stan Mikita's signature, at center. At auction, I would estimate the stick to go for about $2,000 to $3,000.
GUEST: No! $2,000? Ha! I absolutely never... that's mind-blowing.
