1930's Lou Gehrig Signed Baseball, Displays as a Single....

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1930's Lou Gehrig Signed Baseball, Displays as a Single.
Update: PSA/DNA has deemed that this ball shows evidence of signature removals on the North panel.

The New York Yankees have supplied the sporting world with true icons of the game ever since Babe Ruth took up Big Apple residence at the start of the 1920 season. Derek Jeter today carries the mantle he inherited from Mantle, who took it from Joe DiMaggio, who singled and doubled off Cleveland's ace Bob Feller to extend his hitting streak to nineteen on June 2, 1941, the day the great Iron Horse drew his final breath. Surely, after Jeter's pinstriped deuce joins the rest of the gang in Monument Park, there will be another. Love the Yankees or hate them, the magic is undeniable.

But in that elite brotherhood memorialized beyond the center field fence of the new Stadium, Lou Gehrig commands a certain reverence that even the Babe, the Clipper and the Mick cannot. Gehrig had been the antithesis of the prima donna athlete, quietly brilliant in the shadow of the game's greatest figure, unfailing in his fidelity to his team and the simple dignity of his labors. For fourteen seasons, Gehrig never called in sick, playing through broken bones and concussions which many today believe served a significant role in his fatal illness.

Taken far too soon, and perhaps never fully appreciated during his life, Gehrig provided the hobby with just a tiny fraction of the single signed spheres produced by his rotund slugging cohort. While this is technically not a solo sphere, due to the imperceptible ghost of a fully faded Ruth, the ball exhibits the unmistakable appearance of one of the finest Gehrig singles on Earth. The Hall of Fame first baseman rates 9+/10 on the side panel of a non-official sphere that ably imitates official models with its two-toned stitching. Full LOA from PSA/DNA. Full LOA from James Spence Authentication.

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