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1941 Play Ball Joe DiMaggio #71 PSA NM-MT 8....
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1941 Play Ball Joe DiMaggio #71 PSA NM-MT 8. 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. On June 8th, DiMaggio clubs three homers in a doubleheader in St. Louis. A lucky bounce and a friendly scorekeeper on June 17th extends the streak to thirty. Browns pitcher Bob Muncrief refuses manager Luke Sewell's call to walk DiMaggio in his last at bat in the thirty-sixth game, with predictable results. "That wouldn't have been fair to him or to me," Muncrief explains. "Hell, he's the greatest player I ever saw."A small ransom is paid to the Newark, New Jersey bat thief and DiMaggio connects on the first swing with his old friend for a home run on July 5th, game forty-six. Every day throughout the city of New York, and across the nation, the question is asked, "Did he get one?" The answer remains "Yes" until July 17th at Cleveland's League Park, when a pair of acrobatic plays by Indians third baseman Ken Keltner puts an end to a fifty-six game consecutive streak unequalled to this day.
Graded PSA NM-MT 8. Offered is a beautiful high grade example of DiMaggio's coveted 1941 Play Ball #71. With over 850 submissions to PSA, only six examples have ever graded higher.
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2021 November 18 - 20 Fall Sports Collectibles Catalog Auction #50049 (go to Auction Home page)
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November, 2021
18th-20th
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