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1948 Leaf Jackie Robinson Rookie #79 PSA NM 7. ...
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The most important rookie of them all!
1948 Leaf Jackie Robinson Rookie #79 PSA NM 7. On Jackie
Robinson's tombstone in Brooklyn's Cypress Hills Cemetery, just
five miles from where Ebbets Field once stood, these words are
engraved: "A life is not important except in the impact it has on
other lives." By that metric, no athlete in American sporting
history is more important than the man who took the dangerous first
step across baseball's shameful color line. Though Ruth and Cobb
may stand taller in the sport's pantheon, from a purely
sociological standpoint Robinson has no challenger in significance,
and it's no stretch to say that Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.
and President Barack Obama would have been impossible without the
forward momentum Robinson supplied to the cause of racial
equality.Thus there could be no contesting the logic of a corollary between the most important rookie ballplayer of all-time and the elite significance of that player's rookie card. And it is surely only a delightful coincidence that the first full-color trading card issue of the post-war era should host the debut of the man who brought long-overdue color to the Major Leagues. Discounting the short-printed representations celebrating Satchel Paige and Bob Feller, the Robinson is far and away the set's most significant component.
Nearing its eightieth birthday, the 1948 Leaf set thins out dramatically at the upper third of the PSA population ladder, with fewer than fifty unqualified examples surpassing the offered specimen in well over 1,900 submissions. The common faults of the issue--poor registration and centering--are absent here, providing aesthetics that exceed an already impressive technical rating. Graded PSA NM 7.
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Auction Info
2026 February 28 - March 1 Winter Platinum Night Sports Catalog Auction #50083 (go to Auction Home page)
Auction Dates
Feb-Mar, 2026
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