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1927 New York Yankees Team Signed Baseball with 36 Signatures....
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The most comprehensive "Murderer's Row" ball we've encountered!
1927 New York Yankees Team Signed Baseball with 36
Signatures. Of the twenty-seven pinstriped editions to deliver
World Championship glory to the fans in the Bronx, this Golden Age
club stands in baseball lore as the finest of the lot. In fact,
this club is the answer most commonly given by baseball experts and
historians when pressed to name the greatest baseball team of all
time, bar none. When one considers the roster made available to
Hall of Fame manager Miller Huggins, the reasoning behind this wide
consensus becomes clear.The all but supernatural slugging powers of home run king Babe Ruth and season MVP Lou Gehrig fed an unprecedented offensive onslaught that saw the Yanks almost quadruple the American League team home run average. Earle Combs topped the League in both singles and triples. Bob Meusel and Tony Lazzeri each reached triple-digits in the RBI column. So deadly were the bats that stacked the Yankee line-up that sportswriters referred to the club with the rather sinister moniker "Murderer's Row."
Here we present what must be the most comprehensive baseball in the hobby to document that glorious Golden Age club, an OAL (Johnson) orb boasting a staggering three dozen residents. We particularly love hunchbacked bat boy/mascot Eddie Bennett's appearance on the sweet spot below the autograph of his closest friend, Babe Ruth. That mysterious little man is almost never found on team balls, and certainly not in such a prominent position.
A cavalcade of Hall of Fame immortals lurks nearby: Lou Gehrig, Tony Lazzeri, Waite Hoyt, Miller Huggins, Earle Combs and even team owner Jacob Ruppert and general manager Ed Barrow. There's the rare Urban Shocker, who, like manager Huggins, would not live to see a new decade. Paul Krichell is another extraordinary rarity on a Yankees team ball, the legendary scout who discovered Gehrig, Lazzeri among many other pinstriped immortals. Other notables include Pat Collins, Joe Dugan, Bob Meusel, Cedric Durst, George Pipgras and Johnny Grabowski. The only secretarial signature is Art Fletcher.
The most elite vintage in baseball history is assured by the presence of Joe Giard and Ray Morehart, each of whom inhabited pinstripes only during the World Championship season of 1927. Ball exhibits an expected degree of storage wear, but our enlargeable online photography should convince all interested parties that the autographs are nearly all well within acceptable quality parameters. Full LOA from PSA/DNA.
Auction Info
2020 August 29 - 30 Summer Platinum Night Sports Collectibles Catalog Auction - Dallas #50029 (go to Auction Home page)
Auction Dates
August, 2020
29th-30th
Saturday-Sunday
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