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1941 Play Ball Joe DiMaggio #71 PSA NM-MT 8 - Only Six Higher!...
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1941 Play Ball Joe DiMaggio #71 PSA NM-MT 8 - Only Six Higher! Offered is a 1941 Play Ball Joe DiMaggio #71. On May 15, 1941, it begins. The Yankees are massacred at The Stadium by a tally of thirteen to one, the only run for the home team delivered by a DiMaggio single against White Sox pitcher Eddie Smith. Joltin' Joe would hit safely the next day. And the next. And the next. Weeks pass and the streak continues.Leading with one man on and one out in the bottom of the eighth of game thirty-eight, Tommy Henrich bunts to assure no double play, and one last chance for DiMaggio. He doubles, and the crowd roars. A thief absconds with DiMaggio's favorite bat between games forty-one and forty-two of a doubleheader, rattling the star centerfielder. Tommy Henrich offers his bat for DiMaggio's last plate appearance. His slap hit to left field eclipses George Sisler's American League record. Two games later, he ties Wee Willie Keeler's Major League record, and surpasses it the next day in dramatic fashion with his eighteenth homer of the year.
Every day throughout the city of New York, and across the nation, the question is asked, "Did he get one?" The answer remained "Yes" until July 17th at Cleveland's League Park, when the fifty-six game consecutive streak ended. For millions of sports fans, the mention of the year 1941 brings to mind this one important event: the Joe DiMaggio streak. Presented is one of the finest known cardboard commemoratives from that time. Graded PSA NM-MT 8. One of thirty one graded NM-MT with six higher.
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2024 May 16 - 18 Spring Sports Catalog Auction #50069 (go to Auction Home page)
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May, 2024
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