The Cup

Is there any other sporting trophy even remotely as grand?
Imagine having your name tapped into it’s silver base.
Harold Sanderson had it right when, still wet with the beer from the 1970
Bruins Cup celebration, he glanced at son Derek and said, “The Stanley Cup, sort
of a passport to immortality, eh?”

About the Curator’s Corner

Richard Johnson’s “Curator’s Corner” is where you will find videos featuring Richard and Sports Museum Executive Director, Rusty Sullivan, discussing Boston sports history, as well as blog posts written by Richard himself.

Celtics Hire Bill Russell as first Black Head Coach in NBA History

The Life and Legend of Cannonball Jackman

While perusing the contents of one of the many banker’s boxes that contained our first archival acquisitions, I came upon a photograph of then Boston Mayor Kevin White presenting a Revere Bowl to Jackman at a ceremony honoring Boston’s greatest athletes as part of Boston’s 350th anniversary celebration in 1970.

Pro Football’s Happy Warrior

Billy Sullivan started the Boston Patriots with $8,000, an abundant supply of charm/blarney, and a dogged determination to succeed where five other Boston-based pro football franchises had failed.