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Jackie Robinson Autographs and Memorabilia
4 Lots
 Lot 1. Jackie Robinson 8”x10” B&W Glossy Photo Boldly Signed on the Light Portion. The location of the signature, a mint 9 to gem mint 10, provides maximum contrast on this b&w photo, which has creases in the corners. After his baseball career, Robinson lent his sizable gravitas to the Civil Rights movement, often traveling the country to speak. For his service to the Civil Rights movement and the country generally, he was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal. Here is an outstanding signed image of the distinguished Robinson as he approaches the lectern at one of his many speaking engagements! Authenticated by Kevin Keating and PSA-DNA.
Winning Bid $525.
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 Lot 159. 1967 Program Cover Signed by 36 Including 21 Baseball Hall of Fame Members. The autographs are on the front and back covers of the seating arrangement for the 1967 dinner of the New York Chapter of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America. Signatures of HoFers, many of them now deceased, are everywhere: Jackie Robinson, Joe DiMaggio, Dizzy Dean, Pie Traynor, Leo Durocher, Sam Rice, Luke Appling, Zack Wheat, Goose Goslin, Hank Greenberg, Larry MacPhail, Edd Roush, Joe Cronin, Frank Robinson, Lefty Grove, Robin Roberts, Yogi Berra (signed twice), Ford Frick, Ted Lyons, Enos Slaughter, Frank Frisch and Bob Feller. Other signers are Bill Virdon, Al Schacht, Vinegar B. Mizell, Harry Walker, Bobby Brown, Ralph Branca, W. D. Eckert, Allie Reynolds and Paul Kerr, HoF Museum president. ALSO, GIL MCDOUGALD AND MICHAEL BURK, YANKEES PRESIDENT FOM 1966-73. The signatures are generally strong, most nm and better and written atop printed portions of the seating chart-program. Excellent display and conversation piece! Authenticated by Kevin Keating. Proceeds from the sale of this lot will benefit the Society for American Baseball Research, a non-profit membership organization open to all that fosters the research, preservation, and dissemination of the history and record of baseball.
Winning Bid $429.
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 Lot 201. Incredible Collection of 41 Brooklyn Dodgers Player and Team Pins. Nine pins hold the key to this collection. (Almost all have rust on the back.) Leading off the non-player pins is the 1950s “I am a Member of the Dogerette Dodger Fan Club,” 1 ¼”, blue type over a red batter on a white background. Nm. A 1 ¾” black on blue pin also is high-quality. It shows the exterior of Ebbets Field and says “Brooklyn Dodgers, National League Champions.” Nm-m with minimal back rust. Another 1 ¾” pin, blue on a white baseball, proclaims “Brooklyn Dodgers National League Champions.” Nm with minimal rust. Accompanying these team-related pins is a 1984 Hall of Fame induction pin, nm-m, no box. The Class of 1984 included the Dodgers’ Pee Wee Reese and Don Drysdale, along with three other players. There are two other team pins, a 1 ¼” crossed bats version, blue rim, nm-m, rust on the back, and a ribbon that says “We Did It Again 1956,” and a 1 ¼” pin with “Brooklyn Dodgers” in red on a white rectangle, vg, stain on “n,” ribbons and ball and glove attached. Jackie Robinson tops the group of player pins. Robinson is featured on a 1 ¾” PM10 pin with a yellow background, vg because of foxing mainly at the rim and on Robinson’s left cheek. Other key PM10 pins are Roy Campanella, white background, name in strip, vg because of foxing, and Pee Wee Reese, white background, large photo, vg-ex. Other PM10 pins are of Reese with a gray background and his name across the photo, vg-ex; Billy Cox, chest to cap, minimal rust, nm; Carl Furillo, dark sleeves, ex-m; and from the 1940 issue, Dolph Camilli, ex+, and Pete Reiser, vg+, clean pin with two small cracks. The remaining vintage pin marks the Brooklyn Centennial, 1834-1934, 1 ¼”, ex. Five 3” pins mark the Hall of Fame induction of Campanella, Koufax, Reese, Robinson and Snider, nm. New pins picture Don Newcombe and Campanella, relate to Robinson in some way (9), honor Ebbets Field (2), mark the Dodgers’ World Championship (2), or urge the Dodgers’ return to Brooklyn (4). These newer pins average nm. Proceeds from the sale of this lot will benefit the Society for American Baseball Research, a non-profit membership organization open to all that fosters the research, preservation, and dissemination of the history and record of baseball.
Winning Bid $429.
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 Lot 202. 19 Books on Robinson or Rickey, 6 Signed by the Authors Including Mrs. Robinson. Hardbacks unless otherwise noted. The six autographed books are: Jackie Robinson: An Intimate Portrait, signed by authors Rachel Robinson, Jackie’s widow, and Lee Daniels and foreword author Roger Wilkins. Jackie’s Nine by Sharon Robinson, his daughter. Jackie Robinson: A Biography, by Arnold Rampersad. Baseball’s Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy, by Jules Tygiel. Branch Rickey, by Murray Polner. And Rickey & Robinson, by Harvey Frommer. The signatures are personalized 9s or 10s and authenticated by Kevin Keating. These books are nm to nm-m in ex-m to nm dust jackets. All but the Tygiel book appear to be first editions. Autobiographies are Jackie Robinson: My Own Story, 1948 paperback, covers detached, vg; Wait Till Next Year, signed on the flyleaf by co-author Carl T. Rowan (pers. 10 signature), 1960 first printing, vg-ex book, g+ dj; Baseball Has Done It, 1964 stated first, ex/ex dj with a stain on the back, and I Never Had It Made, 1972 apparent first, ex/ex. Other books on Robinson are by Sharon Robinson, Stealing Home, 1996 first, nm/nm; Arthur Mann, The Jackie Robinson Story, ex/ex ; Jackie 1947, Tot Holmes, 1997 softcover, magazine format, ex; David Faulkner, Great Time Coming, nm-m/nm; Milton J. Shapiro, Jackie Robinson, 1965, vg-ex/none issued; Francene Sabin, Jackie Robinson, 1985, g/none; Mark Alvarez, HoF book on Robinson, 1990, softcover, ex-m+; from his foundation, Jackie Robinson: An American Journey, 1987 oversized softcover, nicely illustrated, nm; and Teammates, on Robinson and Reese, by Peter Golenbock, 1990 softcover, vg-ex. Also, Mr. Baseball: The Story of Branch Rickey, by David Lipman, 1966, illustrated hardcover, f. Proceeds from the sale of this lot will benefit the Society for American Baseball Research, a non-profit membership organization open to all that fosters the research, preservation, and dissemination of the history and record of baseball.
Minimum Bid $75.
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