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1915 Cracker Jack Walter Johnson #57 PSA Mint 9....
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One of four at this grade with none higher!
1915 Cracker Jack Walter Johnson #57 PSA Mint 9. For over half a century, Walter Johnson endured a lonely existence as the sole inhabitant of the 3,000 Strikeout Clubhouse until Cardinals ace Bob Gibson became his first roommate in 1974. Though Gibson may have matched Johnson's famous velocity, the Big Train was a singular rarity in the dawning decades of the twentieth century, striking fear into the hearts of even the most accomplished and unflappable batsmen of the day."The first time I faced him, I watched him take that easy windup," the legendary Ty Cobb recounted. "And then something went past me that made me flinch. The thing just hissed with danger. We couldn't touch him. Every one of us knew we'd met the most powerful arm ever turned loose in a ball park."
Three decades after that memorable first encounter, Cobb and Johnson would join Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner and Christy Mathewson as the very first inductees of the Baseball Hall of Fame. The offered trading card finds itself part of another even more elite brotherhood--one of just four 1915 Cracker Jacks to find Johnson sheltered beneath a Mint 9 slab.
A condition report allows us to do nothing more than hurl superlatives, as the card passes its centennial looking better than most of the cards did upon their original birth from Cracker Jack packages in 1915 when sticky caramel was a common danger. The presented representation is indistinguishable from its state of condition upon original printing, clean and sharp-cornered, and free of the centering problems endemic to the issue. Our last PSA Mint 9 example sold for over $100,000 in February of this year.
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2016 August 27-28 Sports Collectibles Platinum Auction - Dallas #7160 (go to Auction Home page)
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August, 2016
27th-28th
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