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Team-Signed Baseballs
10 Lots
 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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