Lou Gehrig Single Signed OAL William Harridge Baseball JSA PSA Beckett LOA
1934-39 Lou Gehrig Single Signed Baseball – Rare Sweet Spot Positioning!
It has been said that for every one hundred Babe Ruth singles, you’ll find one solo Lou Gehrig, and even that may be overstating the supply of the latter. After all, Gehrig was quoted as saying, “I’m not a headline guy. I know that as long as I was following Ruth to the plate I could have stood on my head and no one would have known the difference.” Though this is more of an illustration of Gehrig’s tremendous modesty than a tongue-in-cheek statement of fact, it is certainly undeniable that Lou just did not receive a fraction of the autograph requests that Ruth did, leaving collectors eight decades after his passing to scrap for the scant few available singles.
Here we encounter a specimen which ups the ante even further, supplying rare sweet spot positioning atypical of a man whose humility usually drew him to the side panel even on an otherwise blank ball. His black fountain pen ink survives with a conservative 6/10 boldness, unmistakable and stylishly scripted. The red-stitching of the OAL (Harridge) ball that serves as the ideal medium assures post-1933 production, as Gehrig was stepping out of the shadow of the Babe where he had labored for a decade. Soiling suggests game use. A marvelous rarity far too often absent from even the finest private collections. Full LOA from James Spence Authentication. Full LOA from PSA/DNA. Full LOA from Beckett Authentication Services.
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Lou Gehrig Single Signed OAL William Harridge Baseball JSA PSA Beck...
1934-39 Lou Gehrig Single Signed Baseball – Rare Sweet Spot Positioning!
It has been said that for every one hundred Babe Ruth singles, you’ll find one solo Lou Gehrig, and even that may be overstating the supply of the latter. After all, Gehrig was quoted as saying, “I’m not a headline guy. I know that as long as I was following Ruth to the plate I could have stood on my head and no one would have known the difference.” Though this is more of an illustration of Gehrig’s tremendous modesty than a tongue-in-cheek statement of fact, it is certainly undeniable that Lou just did not receive a fraction of the autograph requests that Ruth did, leaving collectors eight decades after his passing to scrap for the scant few available singles.
Here we encounter a specimen which ups the ante even further, supplying rare sweet spot positioning atypical of a man whose humility usually drew him to the side panel even on an otherwise blank ball. His black fountain pen ink survives with a conservative 6/10 boldness, unmistakable and stylishly scripted. The red-stitching of the OAL (Harridge) ball that serves as the ideal medium assures post-1933 production, as Gehrig was stepping out of the shadow of the Babe where he had labored for a decade. Soiling suggests game use. A marvelous rarity far too often absent from even the finest private collections. Full LOA from James Spence Authentication. Full LOA from PSA/DNA. Full LOA from Beckett Authentication Services.
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