Playboy Interview: Wayne Gretzky
April, 1985
Playboy Interview: Wayne GretzkyIn keeping with the Playboy tradition of interviewing heads of state, we bring you Wayne Douglas Gretzky of Canada. For those who don't follow the puck, he is Jim Thorpe on skates, Jesse Owens with a stick, Babe Ruth in hockey shorts. Going by statistics alone, Wayne Gretzky is the greatest athlete of the 20th Century. Going by the polls, he is more famous than everyone else in Canada combined.Gretzky doesn't have the flash of Bobby Hull or Bobby Orr; he can't ska...