The unsigned letter arrived in all caps with no return address, the writer precisely penning each line with the aid of a ruler, like the nuns used to teach.
Looney also greatly admired Russell. In the days before Twitter and Reddit and email, feedback arrived in the form of letters to the newsroom. We found dozens of them in Uncle Joe's things, many from golf luminaries like Ben Hogan, Jack Nicklaus, and Arnold Palmer.
The letter, on a plain 6x7 piece of stationary, is stunning in multiple ways. The first is that it includes a detailed illustration in colored pencil of a blonde woman with a tear rolling down each cheek. The choice of hair color feels obviously intentional, and the quality of the artwork is alternately amazing and alarming.
If you're wondering what caused the writer to mock Russell's bravery while also pointedly refusing to identify the antiwar heavyweight champ by his legal name of Muhammad Ali, it's over the ultimate mundanity: a knee injury. Just days shy of his 35th birthday, and in his final season as a player-coach, Russell had earned a break. The Traveler's archives aren't available online, but it's clear from context that my uncle had simply written an injury update like everyone else. There's no arguing its newsworthiness. Russell was trying to become an 11-time champ in the twilight of his career.
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