🎉 My first article for The Hockey News!: https://thehockeynews.com/womens/other-news/how-the-first-women-s-hockey-card-inspired-a-generation-of-players
This was such a cool piece to work on. In May 2023, I started the first account dedicated to women’s hockey cards on Instagram (@womenshockeycards) with one card in my collection, a signed 1992 Classic Games Manon Rheaume card.
After a year of collecting, publishing posts, and researching the history of women’s hockey cards, I realized that Manon’s 1992 cards were the first trading cards of a women’s hockey player ever produced.
Earlier this year, Ian Kennedy at The Hockey News approached me about writing about women’s hockey collectibles. It was immediately clear to me what topic I wanted to tackle first - Manon’s 1992 cards, a story that had never been told before.
Thank you to Manon, Steve Bartlett (of Bartlett Hockey - Manon’s agent in 1992), and Sami Jo Small for sharing their thoughts about the 1992 cards. Coincidentally, while attending the Toronto Sports Card Expo earlier this year, I was lucky enough to hear Hockey Hall of Famer Angela Ruggiero speak about the absence of women’s cards when she was a young player and was excited to be able to work that into the article.
I grew up reading The Hockey News. I couldn’t be more proud to have my name appear in this publication and shed some light on a previously unexplored area of women’s hockey and sports memorabilia history.
📰 Read ‘How the First Women's Hockey Card Inspired a Generation of Players’: https://thehockeynews.com/womens/other-news/how-the-first-women-s-hockey-card-inspired-a-generation-of-players
