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Team-Signed Baseballs
10 Lots
 Lot 134. Kansas City Royals Collection of 90+ Autographs Including 4 Signed Team Balls. All of the baseballs are OAL MacPhail models and appear to be batting practice balls. The best of the team balls is from 1983 and has 21 bold signatures, including George Brett, who shares a side panel with Leon Roberts, John Wathan and Cesar Geronimo. Dick Howser is on the sweet spot. Other side panel signers are general manager John Schuerholz, Frank White, Rocky Colavito, U.L. Washington, Joe Nossek, Amos Otis, Buddy Biancalana, Jeff Cox, V Blue, Dan Quisenberry, Greg Pryor, Paul Splittorff, Mickey Cobb, Dennis Leonard, Cloyd Boyer and Larry Gura. The autographs are all 9s and 10s, and the ball is lightly to moderately toned with strong printed areas. Schuerholz has been highly successful as a baseball executive. He spent 22 years with the Royals, nine as GM, and now is president of the Atlanta Braves. The teams he built have won two World Championships, Kansas City in 1985 and Atlanta in 1995, and 15 division titles. A second ball, apparently from 1982, has 13 signatures, including Schuerholz on a side panel. Howser again is on the sweet spot, and other autographs are by Bud Black, Paul Splittorff, Kelly Heath, Frank White, Cesar Geronimo, Dennis Leonard, Scott Brown, John Wathan and Greg Pryor. The Black signature is ex 5, and Wathan’s, a 6-7; the others range from nm-m 8 to gem mint 10, and most are 9s and 10s. The ball has been used and exhibits some soiling and a couple of abrasions. A second 1982 team ball, which is vg+, has predominantly ex-m 6 signatures of Howser, White, Leonard, Otis, Brown, Geronimo, Pryor, Splittorff, Heath, Schuerholz and Don Hood. Another MacPhail ball, which is vg-ex, has a Vida Blue mint 9 signature at the top of a side panel. The other autographs, some by players from other teams, are on Royals spring training programs, which average ex; not all of the programs have autographs. The signatures are overwhelmingly 9s and 10s, some over printed text: 1972 (scored). 1981, 5 programs including: A scored program with a roster insert signed by Johnny Bench, Joe Price, Tom Foley and Joe Nolan. A scored program with the cover signed by Bob Cox and Larry Owen. A scored program with the cover signed by Bob Doerr, Dennis Menke and Jim Frey, and a roster insert signed by Dave Huppert, Dan Logan and John Shelby. An unscored program with the cover signed by Jerry Terrell, Jamie Quirk and Clint Hurdle and the insert signed by Billy Sample, Jim Norris, Buddy Bell, Rick Dempsey and Charlie Hough. And an insert signed by Bob Bonner and Al Bumbry. 1982, 3 programs, one with a cover signed by Bud Black, Dennis Leonard and an insert signed by Darrell Johnson, Wayne Terwilliger, Don Werner, Mike Reichardt, John Butcher, Mark Mercer, Leon Roberts and Steve Comer; one with an insert signed by Scott Brown and Greg Pryor, and another with the cover signed by Larry Gura and Kelly Heath, and the insert signed by Russ Nixon, Dave Van Gorder, Paul Householder, Don Zimmer and Rafael Landestoy. 1983, front cover signed by Rocky Colavito, Jose Martinez and Vida Blue, and the back cover, by Steve Bedrosian, Larry Owen, Phil Niekro, Dal Maxvill and Terry Forster. 1984, cover autographed by Danny Jackson and Dick Howser. 1985, 3 programs. The autographs are accompanied by two tickets for a 1982 spring training game and a 1985 Royals World Champions full-sized scroll pennant, ex-m to nm with several pin holes. Authenticated by Kevin Keating.
Winning Bid $110.
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 Lot 135. 1965 LA Dodgers World Champions Team Ball Signed by 21. Many key signatures are here, including NL Rookie of the Year Jim Lefebvre, Walter Alston, Don Drysdale and Willie Davis. Drysdale and Alston share the sweet spot. The south panel has autographs of Ron Fairly, Hector Valle and Claude Osteen, as well as clubhouse signatures of Sandy Koufax, Willie Crawford and Maury Wills by the ball-signing Dodgers batboy. The ball is signed also by P Gomez, Danny Ozark, Bob Miller, Wally Moon, Dick Tracewski, Jim Brewer, Al Ferrara, Ron Perranoski, Wes Parker, Derrell Griffith, Howie Reed, John Podres, John Kennedy and John Roseboro. The signatures range from ex 5 to nm-m 8 and average nm 7. The Drysdale autograph grades 7-8. The ball is a nm Dodgers model with some light discoloration. These Dodgers needed seven games to defeat Minnesota in the World Series. Authenticated by Kevin Keating.
Winning Bid $100.
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 Lot 136. 1965 A.L. Champion Minnesota Twins Baseball Signed by 28. Key autographs on this OAL Cronin baseball are Harmon Killebrew, Tony Oliva, Zoilo Versalles (A.L. MVP) and Jim Kaat. Manager Sam Mele has the sweet spot to himself. Killebrew and Oliva are on the north panel with Earl Battey, Al Worthington, Dwight Siebler and John Sevcik. Other signers are Bob Allison, Garry Roggenburk, Jerry Zimmerman, Rich Rollins, Don Mincher, Bill Pleis, Mel Nelson (twice), Frank Quilici, Jim Lemon, Joe Nossek, Dick Stigman, John Sain, Jim Perry, Jim Hall, Johnny Klippstein, Jim Grant, Jerry Kindall and Camilo Pascual. The autographs range from ex 5 to mint 9 and average nm 7 to nm-m 8. The ball is clean and slightly off-white with two minor spots of discoloration. The printed areas are largely unreadable. The Twins fell in seven World Series games to the Los Angeles Dodgers. Authenticated by Kevin Keating.
Winning Bid $180.
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 Lot 137. Twins Team-Signed Baseballs – 1977, 1979, 1984 (Puckett Rookie) and 1994. Incredible collection of more than 110 autographs, predominantly mint 9s and gem mint 10s, on official American League baseballs with one exception. Kevin Keating authenticated the autographs. Key names include Rod Carew, Lyman Bostock, Tony Oliva, Kent Hrbek, Frank Viola, Kirby Puckett and Dave Winfield. The key ball is the 1984, which has the autograph of a 23-year-old rookie named Kirby Puckett. It’s an nm-m Bobby Brown OAL ball signed also by (Please note: For each year, we’ve listed the last names of the signers; first and last names actually are present): 30 other Twins, Gardner, Eisenreich, Hatcher, Hodge, Smithson, Hrbek, Teufel, Castillo, Hart, Lemon, Walters, Pashnick, Filson, Castino, Kelly, Filson, Davis, Stelmaszek, Brunansky, Jimenez, Laudner, Gaetti, Viola, Williams, Schrom and Podres. 1977: MacPhail nm ball with minor, light uneven toning. 33 autographs, Carew over the pre-printed area, Mauch on the sweet spot; Kuehl, Bulling, Zimmerman, Wynegar, Burgmeier, Tom Johnson, Norwood, Thormodsgard, Glenn Adams, Kusick, Gorinski, McMahon, Serum, Holly, Goltz, Dave Johnson, Hisle, Redfern, Randall, Jim Shellenback, Cubbage, Zahn, Carrithers, Glenn Borgmann, Bass, Bostock (died 1978), Schueler, Gomez, Terrell, Oliva, Sam Perlozzo. 1979: Unofficial ex ball with uneven toning. 23 autographs, 10 bold 10s in purple; the others are mostly nm 7 and nm-m 8. Mauch (clubhouse) and Smalley on sweet spots, Landreaux, Edwards, Pascual, Randall, Kuehl, Hartzell, Graham, Goltz, Serum, Erickson, Zahn, Zimmerman, Rivera, Serum, Jackson, Bacski, Morales, Norwood, Butch Wynegar, Adams, Koosman. 1994: Brown nm-m ball. 30 signatures, Kelly, Winfield, Pulido, Parks, Knoblauch, Guthrie, Willis, Gardenhire, Alex Cole, McCarty, Terwilliger, Erickson, Merriman, Casian, Leius, Deshaies Stelmaszek, Walbeck, Meares, Tapani, Such, Hale, Dunn, Mahomes, Becker, Reboulet and Shane Mack.
Winning Bid $245.
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 Lot 141. 1936 Pirates Team Ball with Wagner, the Waners, Traynor and Vaughan. ONL lightly toned ball with 40-50 percent of the pre-printed areas present. “Pie” Traynor shares the sweet spot with Mace Brown. Honus Wagner is on the east panel with Bud Hafey, cousin of Hall of Fame outfielder Chick Hafey. The west panel is occupied by Arky Vaughan, Gus Suhr and “Red” Lucas. Lloyd Waner and Woody Jensen are on the north panel, and Ralph Birkofer, Paul Waner, Jim Weaver and Fred Schulte on the south. The signatures are light. These autographs grade ex 5; all of the letters are visible: Wagner, Vaughan, Suhr, Hafey and Birkofer. The Paul Waner autographs grades vg-ex, with all letters visible with close scrutiny; also Schulte and Lucas. The other signatures have some letters missing. Kevin Keating authenticated the autographs. The Wagner and Vaughan signatures alone make this ball well worth our
Winning Bid $357.
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 Lot 142. ONL Frick Baseball Signed Ralph Kiner, 22 More 1951 Pittsburgh Pirates. A JSA Letter of Authenticity accompanies this ball, which has the Pirates’ Hall of Fame slugger on the east panel with Bill Werle, George Strickland, Murray Dickson, Jack Maguire and future manager Danny Murtaugh. Bill Meyer (died 1957) was Pittsburgh’s manager in 1951, and he and Dino Restelli share the sweet spot. Meyer signed also the north panel, along with Bill Koski, Gus Bell (d. 1995), rookie Bob Friend, Con Dempsey and Junior Walsh. The ball is signed also by these Pirates: Vernon Law, Stan Rojak, Joe Muir (d. 1980), Cliff Chambers, Mel Queen Sr. and Wally Westlake on the south panel and Hank Schenz, Pete Reiser, Ed FitzGerald and Paul Pettit on the west. In addition, the ball is signed also by Bob Thomson of the New York Giants. It is likely that the ball was autographed at a spring training game. An addendum to the JSA LoA indicates that the ball is signed by two Giants, Schenz and Thomson. Actually, Schenz split the season between Pittsburgh and New York, playing 25 games with the Pirates before being traded and participating in eight games with the Giants. His is legitimately a Pirates autograph. Nm ball with signatures ranging from vg 3 to ex-m 6 and averaging vg-ex 4. Authenticated also by Kevin Keating. The ball has 24 Pirates signatures, two by Meyer, plus Thomson.
Winning Bid $180.
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 Lot 143. Roberto Clemente and Willie Stargell Autographs on a 1971 Pirates Team Ball. Clemente and Stargell share the east panel of this “Pittsburgh Pirates” Wilson baseball with Steve Blass. The ball is ex, exhibiting a combination of light to moderate toning and soiling and presenting strong pre-printed areas. The presence of Clemente and Blass on a single panel is especially appropriate. Clemente was the MVP of the 1971 World Series as the Pirates captured the World Championship in seven games, and Blass was the star pitcher. Stargell’s signature is the strongest on the panel, an ex-m 6 to nm 7. Clemente’s is just slightly lighter, ex-m 6. The Blass signature grades vg-ex 4. Other stronger signatures on the ball, grading from nm 7 to mint 9, are by Gene Clines, Jackie Hernandez, Jose Pagan, Milt May, Dave Giusti, Dock Ellis and Dave Cash. Danny Murtaugh is on the sweet spot; vg-ex 4. Other autographs are by Bill Mazeroski (ex 5), M. Sanguillen, Bill Virdon, Nellie Briles and Frank Oceak. Tremendous memento representing one of Clemente’s greatest moments! Authenticated by Kevin Keating
Winning Bid $472.
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 Lot 144. Baseball Signed by 20 1979 World Champion Pittsburgh Pirates – Stargell, Blyleven, Etc. Manager Chuck Tanner signed the sweet spot of this ex to ex-m cream-colored Pittsburgh Pirates baseball dated 7-30-79. N.L. co-MVP Willie Stargell shares the north panel with Bruce Kison, Dave Parker, Grant Jackson, Jim Rooker and Ed Ott. Don Robinson, John Candelaria, Bill Robinson, Kent Tekulve, John Milner and Lee Lacy are on the south panel, Manny Sanguillen and Tim Foli on the east and Phil Garner, Bert Blyleven, Rennie Stennett, Omar Moreno and Dale Berra on the west. The Stennett, Moreno and Berra autographs grade ex 5 or ex-m 6. The others range from nm 7 to mint 9 and average 7-8. The panels with the Stargell and Sanguillen signatures are the strongest; the Stargell autograph is an 8. Authenticated by Kevin Keating.
Winning Bid $83.
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 Lot 151. Autographs of 25 World Champion 1961 N.Y. Yankees on an OAL Cronin Baseball. Signatures range from ex-m 6 to gem mint 10 and average nm 7 to nm-m 8 on this baseball, which once belonged to Yankees coach Wally Moses. Yogi Berra shares the sweet spot with a clubhouse autograph of Mickey Mantle. The north panel is signed by Bill Gardner, Joe DeMaestri, Tex Clevenger, Frank Crosetti, John Blanchard, Hal Reniff, Bud Daley and Clete Boyer, the south by Bill Skowron, Elston Howard, Bob Richardson, Whitey Ford and Roger Maris, the east by Jim Hegan, Luis Arroyo, Roland Sheldon, Bill Stafford, Hec Lopez, John Sain, Ralph Terry and Ralph Houk, and the west by Tony Kubek and Jim Coates. The autographs on the south panel – Skowron, Howard, Richardson, Ford and Maris, grade 7-8. The ball is nm to nm-m with some fading of the printed areas. These Yankees defeated Cincinnati in the World Series in five games. The ball comes with a 1989 Letter of Authenticity signed by Wally Moses. Authenticated also by Kevin Keating.
Winning Bid $636.
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 Lot 152. OAL Cronin Baseball Signed by Mantle, Berra, 27 More 1964 New York Yankees. Clean, white nm-m ball with autographs by members of the 1964 A.L. Championship team. The signatures range from nm 7 to mint 9 and average 7-8. Mickey Mantle (nm 7) and Yogi Berra (nm 7 to nm-m 8) are on the sweet spot. The ball is signed also by Ralph Terry over the printed area, Stan Williams, Jim Bouton, Steve Hamilton, Jim Hegan, Jim Gleeson and Roger Maris on the north panel, Whitey Ford, Bob Richardson, Clete Boyer, Archie Moore, Paul Sheldon, John Blanchard and Pedro Ramos on the south, Tony Kubek, Al Downing, Hal Reniff, Pete Mikkelsen, Tom Tresh, Bill Stafford and Joe Pepitone on the east and Bud Daley, Spud Murray, Hec Lopez, Elston Howard, Pedro Gonzalez and Phil Linz on the west. (“Mark Fox” also is printed on this panel.) The Maris autograph is an 8. A quality example of a 1964 team ball! Authenticated by Kevin Keating.
Winning Bid $291.
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