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Paying the Debt. So does everybody else. Black Hawks President William Wirtz calls Hull "the best public relations man the N.H.L. ever had." He should be; he works hard enough at it. "Every professional athlete," he says, "owes a debt of gratitude to the fans and management, and pays an installment every time he plays. He should never miss a payment." Hull rarely does-whether it means visiting a Chicago hospital to say hello to ailing Black Hawks fans or hanging around the arena until the last autograph is signed. Last month in Toronto, he shook hands and signed autographs...
...paraphrase W. C. Fields, anybody who loves small children can't be all good. The public image aside, Bobby Hull is a pure, all-wool, elemental man, a stogie-chomping, beer-drinking, four-letter guy who said "I do" to a hasty marriage at 18. His second wife, Joanne, is a onetime figure skater; in eight years of boisterously happy marriage, the two of them have worked up a boffo routine. He comes home growling like a bear. She roars back...
...Hull can also be stellar in a Keller. "One day after a White Sox game," he says, "a bunch of us were sitting around a Michigan Avenue bar having a few, when this guy comes up and starts getting pretty obnoxious. I tell him, 'Get lost, creep,' and he looks at me and says, 'You know something, buddy? You're a -,' I reach across the table, grab his tie, give it a half-turn, and cork him one. Then I slam his head down on the table, and it breaks a couple of beer bottles...
Nobody who has ever known Bobby Hull could doubt the story. It was, remembers the senior Robert Hull, 57, "a cold son-of-a-gun of a night" in Point Anne, Ont., when the doctor delivered his fifth child (of eleven) and announced: "The only difference between your son and you is that he doesn't eat so much." Bobby weighed 12 Ibs. at birth. His father, a 240-lb. cement worker, could lift the front end of a car, and he was also a fair country hockey player-which is what folks do to keep warm...
...count the dogs. And about 100 if you don't." The only industry is the cement plant. And the only dash of color in the grey landscape-since Bobby left-is a huge red, white and blue billboard that proudly proclaims: POINT ANNE, BIRTHPLACE OF BOBBY HULL, WORLD'S GREATEST HOCKEY PLAYER...