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1958 Topps Ted Williams #1 PSA Mint 9 -- Pop Ten, None Superior!...
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1958 Topps Ted Williams #1 PSA Mint 9 -- Pop Ten, None Superior! Despite becoming the oldest batting champion in Major League history in 1957, Ted Williams spent the first months of the 1958 season immersed in innuendo both spoken and printed that Father Time had finally claimed the sport's most proficient hitter. As June turned to July, the legendary left fielder finally lifted himself to the .300 mark for the first time in the 1958 season, and that ascent continued, gaining speed after the celebration of his fortieth birthday on August 30th, until a two-for-four performance on the last day of the season ended the surge at a high-water mark of .328The figure would earn Teddy Ballgame his sixth and final American League batting title, thus breaking his own record as oldest player ever to claim a Silver Bat, a distinction he owns to this day. Presented is an extraordinary example of the trading card that led off the 1958 Topps Baseball issue that year, a prescient tribute to a legend still winning the battle against Father Time.
That battle is already won here, the virtually pristine card assured safety and worldwide acclaim within its PSA Mint 9 slab. Any collector with the interest and means to compete for ownership will understand just how difficult it is to achieve such a lofty assessment from the hobby's leading card grading service, and an examination of our high-resolution online imagery will demonstrate that it's an achievement well earned. Consider the color, the registration, the gloss, the centering and the corners and you will find no cause for complaint. As the total PSA population for this card approaches 5,000, this is one of only ten at the top of the heap.
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2024 December 5 - 7 Winter Sports Catalog Auction #50073 (go to Auction Home page)
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