Here’s a fun odd-ball Pacers collectable!

• Title: Pacers Power

• Subtitle: Exciting play-by-play action highlights of Indiana Pacers 1971–72 Championship Season

• Narration: Jerry Baker (legendary Indiana sportscaster)

• Label: Fleetwood Records (catalog FCLP-3065)

• Format: Vinyl LP (spoken-word + crowd + radio broadcast highlights)

• Era: Early 1970s (released shortly after the championship)

What’s on the record

This isn’t music — it’s game highlights, radio calls, crowd noise, and narration, capturing:

• Key moments from the 1971–72 ABA season

• Mel Daniels, Roger Brown, Freddie Lewis, George McGinnis, Bob Netolicky

• Championship-clinching plays and crowd reactions

• Classic ABA-style fast-paced basketball

It’s essentially a time capsule of Pacers basketball history, similar to championship LPs made for Super Bowl, World Series, and NBA title teams in the 1960s–70s.

Growing up, Billy Joel was one of my favorite singers. Even now when I think back, the 80s were filled with Billy Joel, the Eagles, Michael Jackson, Prince, and more. This is still one of my favorite albums of all time. Happy to have an autographed version as part of my collection.

🌍 World Cup Success (Unmatched)

• 3× FIFA World Cup Champion: 1958, 1962, 1970 — the only player in history to win three

• Youngest World Cup winner ever (17 years old) – 1958

• Scored 2 goals in the 1958 final

• Star of the legendary 1970 Brazil team, considered the greatest team ever assembled

🥅 Goal Scoring Records

• 1,279 goals in 1,363 matches (including friendlies)

• 767 official goals – long considered the most in history before Messi and Ronaldo

• Brazil national team:
  

  • 77 goals in 92 matches (still tied as Brazil’s all-time leading scorer)

• Santos FC:
  

  • 643 goals in 659 matches

🏆 Club Career – Santos FC (1956–1974)

• 6× Brazilian League titles

• 2× Copa Libertadores champion (1962, 1963)

• 2× Intercontinental Cups (defeated Benfica and AC Milan)

• Turned Santos into a global superpower

• So famous that Brazilian civil wars paused so people could watch him play

🇺🇸 New York Cosmos (1975–1977)

• Helped popularize soccer in the United States

• NASL Champion (1977)

• Played a key role in growing the sport in North America

🏅 Individual Honors

• FIFA Player of the Century (shared with Maradona)

• World Cup Golden Ball – 1970

• Time Magazine: 100 Most Important People of the 20th Century

• Knighted by Brazil, UNESCO ambassador, global humanitarian icon

✊ Anti-Apartheid Activism

• One of the most prominent global voices opposing apartheid in South Africa.

• Advocated nonviolent resistance, civil disobedience, and international sanctions.

• Regularly risked arrest, violence, and harassment for speaking out.

• Helped mobilize global public opinion, contributing to the eventual dismantling of apartheid.

🕊 Nobel Peace Prize (1984)

• Awarded for his nonviolent opposition to apartheid.

• Recognized for promoting peace, reconciliation, and justice.

• Elevated him to global moral leadership status.

As a Dallas Cowboys fan, we really had a heyday in the mid 90s winning three and four Super Bowl. If the narcissistic GM and owner, Jerry Jones could get out of its way we would’ve had five or six in a row with Jimmy Johnson at the home great quarterback, one of the best running backs to play the game Hall of Fame tight end the best offensive line you could ask for. Still having a list Super Bowl ticket from 1993 autographed by the MVP of the Super Bowl Mr. Smith makes it very special for me.