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Population two, none finer!

1947 Brooklyn Dodgers Debut of Jackie Robinson Ticket Stub, PSA Good 2. The most important baseball ticket of the post-war era? It would be virtually impossible to argue otherwise. Though various newspapers in the New York area spent most of their coverage of the Brooklyn Dodgers' 1947 home opener praising the heroics of center fielder Pete Reiser, who either drove in or personally scored every run recorded by the Bums in their 5-3 victory over the visiting Boston Braves, the game will forever be remembered as our national pastime's finest hour, the righting of a longstanding historical wrong.

On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson took his first brave step across Major League Baseball's color line, beginning a long and dangerous march toward equality beneath a deluge of shouted slurs and death threats delivered by post, telephone and telegram. Robinson would go hitless in this first of 1,382 regular season appearances, but would continue on to produce exactly the type of season required to validate his legitimacy to the doubters, finishing fifth in National League MVP voting and first in balloting for Rookie of the Year.

Those with a finger to the pulse of the hobby marketplace have found important tickets surging in popularity and value over the past two years, an analog to the trading cards and NFT's which are having their own bull market spurred on in large degree by the regimented approach to census-taking that such collectibles allow. When consulting the population report of PSA, we find only seven entries in total, five of which are assessed at "Authentic." The others share a Good 2 rating, establishing this as one of the two finest Jackie Robinson debut tickets known to the hobby. An extraordinary piece which should set a new valuation benchmark once the final bid is placed on Platinum Night. Encapsulated by PSA, Good 2.


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Auction Dates
February, 2022
26th-27th Saturday-Sunday
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