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1927 Babe Ruth Double-Signed New York Yankees Payroll Check with Ruppert & Barrow, PSA/DNA EX-MT 6....
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Description
The season the Babe launched sixty!
1927 Babe Ruth Double-Signed New York Yankees Payroll Check with
Ruppert & Barrow, PSA/DNA EX-MT 6. Place the true baseball
fan/collector/historian in the cockpit of a time machine, his
fingers at the keyboard, and you'll find "The Bronx, 1927" the most
commonly typed destination. For almost a century, the stories of
Murderers' Row have been told and retold, passed from father to son
to grandson, the borders between fact and folklore now difficult to
discern, turned hazy in the brilliant light of its perfection.
Though the christening of the game's finest edifice with the
franchise's first World Championship in 1923 put the baseball world
on notice, it was the season of 1927 that the Yankees truly became
the team that we now know it to be, and that Babe Ruth cemented his
personal legacy as the most enduring name in American sport.Lou Gehrig's American League MVP nod and a four-game World Series sweep of the Pittsburgh Pirates, monumental achievements in their own right, are today recalled largely as footnotes to a greater history, the Babe's successful assault on his own single season home run record. In the mind of most baseball purists, that 1927 tally of five dozen still holds sway as the last legitimate "apples to apples" elevation of long ball slugging's high water mark.
This thrilling artifact documents the handsome monetary rewards for Ruth's unparalleled excellence, the "June 15, 1927" date finding the Babe just over a third of the way to his destination with twenty-one home runs, his batting average sixteen points short of his eventual .356. Obverse of this "The American League Base Ball Club of New York, Inc." check is signed by general manager Ed Barrow and team owner Jacob Ruppert, each of whom would follow the payee into Cooperstown immortality.
Check verso finds the endorsing signature of "George H. Ruth" applied not once but twice, a rare and desirable signature format. We've never encountered a double-signed Yankees payroll check for Ruth previously. It would appear that Ruth brushed the first signature before the ink was dry, smudging the middle initial a bit, but otherwise the autograph is just as fine as the second one. A single vertical crease barely skims the second autograph. We're a bit mystified at the official PSA/DNA assessment as all four signatures are marvelously bold. Encapsulated by PSA/DNA, EX-MT 6.
Auction Info
2026 February 28 - March 1 Winter Platinum Night Sports Catalog Auction #50083 (go to Auction Home page)
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