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Pittsburgh Pirates
3 Lots
 Lot 100. 9 Topps Autograph Insert Cards – Kiner, Weaver, Cabrera and 3 Other Cards. Key cards are: 1. 2007 Triple Threads Gold card, TTRA 86, Ralph Kiner, 8 of only 9 produced. The card has Kiner’s signature, a bold 10, and several bat sections. 2. 2007 Co-Signer Autographs, CS-CW, Miguel Cabrera and Dontrelle Willis. Through August, Cabrera was batting .338 and leading the A.L. in runs batted in. 3. 2005 Personal Endorsement PEA-EW, Earl Weaver. The other cards are: 4. 2001 Fusion Certified Autograph, FA8 Josh Hamilton. 5-6. 2001 Certified Autograph Golden Anniversary Great, GAA-CE Carl Erskine (2). 7. 2003 Certified Autograph TA-PL Paul Lo Duca. 8-9. 2005 Certified Autographs TA-DD Doug DeVore and TA-GN Graig Nettles. The autographs are gem mint 10s, and the cards are generally nm-m or better. Also: 10. 2003 Gallery Original GO-JT Jim Thome bat card. 11-12. 2001 Baseball Bucks Willie Mays (2). Autographs authenticated by Kevin Keating.
Winning Bid $68.
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 Lot 122. 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.
Minimum Bid $100.
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 Lot 171. 1960 World Series Game 6 Ticket Stub – Rain Check and Coupon. Very clean stub (two of the three ticket sections) that has never been attacked by glue or forced to reside in a scrapbook. The coupon has a couple of light creases on the front, including one that stops at the dotted red line that separates the coupon and the rain check. The coupon and rain check were neatly separated from the rest of the ticket. Nice vg-ex. In another lopsided confrontation, the New York Yankees clobbered the Pittsburgh Pirates in Game 6 on Oct. 12, 12-0 on 17 hits off six pitchers. Whitey Ford tossed the shutout for the Yankees.
Winning Bid $68.
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