EPISODE 259: Howard Baldwin Returns!
Hollywood film producer (Ray; The Game of Their Lives; Sudden Death) and original New England/Hartford Whalers founder/owner Howard Baldwin (Slim and None: My Wild Ride from the WHA to the NHL and All the Way to Hollywood) returns after a three-year absence to help fill in some of the gaps left over from Episode 100, and to dish on "new" territory from his hard-to-believe career, including:
The contagious indefatigable spirit of WHA founder Dennis Murphy
Who really paid for Bobby Hull's headline-grabbing contract (and who didn't)
How Houston and Cincinnati went from being "in" the June 1978 WHA-NHL "merger," to being "out" of the senior league's "expansion" a year later
The early 1990s saga of the HC CSKA Moscow "Red Army" team (aka the "Russian Penguins")
Why the way to San Jose stopped first in Pittsburgh and then Minnesota; AND
The World Football League's (almost) "Boston Bulls"