Provenance Detail
Avallon to Phila. Sports Hall of FameNotes
In the early 1980s Ken Avallon was friends with Phillies ball boy Gary Watts. For the 1980 World Series Converse provided a number of pairs of spikes to the Phillies bat boys and ball boys. Gary gave Ken this brand new pair of spikes. Ken wore them to play football in the early-mid 1980s. In 2004 Ken donated these spikes to the Philadelphia Sports Hall of Fame