BOBBY ORR Timeline 1990-1999

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This information will be continuously be updated as more details become available.

Attended the Home Show at the World Trade Center in Boston. Somerville Lumber arranged for Bobby Orr to come in to talk and sign autographs.

Signed autographs on the opening day of the monthlong Boston Festival held at the Boston Common.

Along with Mike Barnicle of The Boston Globe, served as honorary chairmen for a gala benefit at The Pillar House restaurant in Newton, MA on behalf of the Boston-based Foundation for Children with AIDS.

Celebrated Arlington Town Day by signing autographs from 12pm-3pm at the BayBank located at 655 Massachusetts Avenue in the Arlington Centre, MA.

The Best Of Bobby Orr VHS Movie released.

Joined Bob Woolf Associates, the highly renowned sports marketing and representation company.

Canadian astronaut Dr. Robert Thirsk, on his first flight aboard the International Space Station, took into space with him Orr's 1970 Stanley Cup Championship ring and Orr's Bruins jersey. Once in space, Thirsk took a photo of himself in space in 1996 reenacting the famous photo of Bobby Orr following the Stanley Cup game winning goal wearing Orr’s jersey and ring.

Voted second greatest hockey player of all time by an expert committee in 1997 by The Hockey News, ahead of Gordie Howe and behind Wayne Gretzky, as well  as being named the top defenceman of all time.

Won the Canadian Hockey Award which honors Canadians' outstanding contribution to the game in Canada and internationally. The event took place at the Hockey Hall Of Fame in Toronto, Ontario.

Celebrated his 50th Birthday.

July 14

Mentioned in a song by The Tragically Hip, "Fireworks", from their album Phantom Power. The lyrics are: "If there's a goal that everyone remembers it He is was back in ol' 72 ...You held my hand and we walked home the long way/You were loosening my grip on Bobby Orr..." The song refers to Paul Henderson's winning goal in the 1972 Canada-USSR summit series.