LOT #82122 |
Current Bid: $87,500
Signed 1933 Goudey Lou Gehrig #160 PSA Poor 1, Auto 8....
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Description
Signed 1933 Goudey Lou Gehrig #160 PSA Poor 1, Auto 8. On April 23rd of the year during which the presented trading card was issued, a tailing fastball from the left hand of Washington Senators ace Earl Whitehill struck Lou Gehrig in the head. For several frightening minutes, the stalwart first baseman lay in the batter's box as he struggled to regain his senses, then, predictably, stood up, brushed himself off, and took his base. Four months later, with his 1,308th consecutive appearance, he'd surpass Everett Scott to claim the title of the Major Leagues' most durable employee.Today, over eight decades after Gehrig's tragic early passing at age thirty-eight, many in the medical community wonder if the official diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis--more commonly known as Lou Gehrig's Disease--was indeed the irresistible force that claimed the immovable object of the Iron Horse. Could it instead have been brain injury, and Gehrig's unwillingness to convalesce, that was his undoing?
The answer figures to be yet another of our National Pastime's unsolvable mysteries, but there's no question of the rarity and desirability of this relic dating to the season of Gehrig's coronation as Consecutive Games King. The practice of presenting trading cards for signing was in its infancy when one pioneering soul met Gehrig with this card and a fountain pen in hand.
The black ink signature that results is assessed rather conservatively at 8/10 by PSA/DNA, being as fine a Gehrig autograph as we have ever encountered on cardboard. The card itself comes by its numerical assessment honestly, the result of typical corner wear and a bit of surface soiling on verso and right border of obverse, but we believe all viewers will agree that the overall aesthetics far exceed that technical calculation. It is definitely one of the most impressive autographed pre-war cards to appear on the auction block in recent memory. Graded PSA Poor 1 Auto 8.
This is one of five signed examples of this card in the PSA population, with eleven signed examples of #92 bringing the full tally of Gehrig signed 1933 Goudeys to sixteen.
Guide Value or Estimate: $200,000 - up.
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2025 October 24 - 26 Fall Sports Catalog Auction #50080 (go to Auction Home page)
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