Larry Bird photomatched shoes

[joecoco]

Hello everyone-

I was pretty excited to pick up these shoes from a MEARS auction a while back (terrific experience with them). Basically, I have a signed letter from the gentleman who originally purchased them at a charity auction in 1986, directly after the NBA Finals.

On the MEARS website they had a picture of Larry wearing these in Game 3, but I have too much fun doing my homework with photomatching, so I found, what I believe, are some more shots of Larry wearing them. The screen shots are pictures I took from the DVD of the 1986 Finals. I could find a picture of the distinct scuff marks on Larry's shoes in most of the DVDs. The one I have included is of Larry walking from a time out in Game 6. I found larry wearing shoes on gettyimages dated from Game 1, but I was not sure if I could include them inpost due to copyright stuff.

What I think is so cool is that Larry won his last regular season MVP the year these were worn, along with a finals MVP. so in other words, Christmas came early for me this year in September when I go these!

Thanks for the look guys!

Joe