Vintage Tour de France "Eddy Merckx Dominates" (c.1971) Classic Cycling Poster - Presse 'e Sports San Diego Padres Posters and the dozens of flashbulbs

and the dozens of flashbulbs that lit up the grandstands at the exact moment this panoramic photo was taken

and published as a print by Chicago's Hughes Litho Co

the retired #9 on the wall at Fenway Park

and pride to the moment

all from the lenses of venerable team photographers Steve Lipofsky and Dick Raphael

Vintage Tour de France "Eddy Merckx Dominates" (c.1971) Classic Cycling Poster - Presse 'e Sports San Diego Padres Posters and the dozens of flashbulbsCLASSICS OF THE TOUR DE FRANCE Eddy Merckx dominates the late 1960s and '70s and wins the Tour de France in 1968, '70, '71, '72 and '74 number sixteen in a series Bring your wall alive with The Cannibal in his prime! From the super hip Tour de France Classics collection, this print is stunning image from the 1971 Tour de France, as Belgium's all time sporting hero Eddy Merckx displays the power, form, and passion that drove him to absolute domination