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12 Periodicals Including “Baseball” and “SI” with Pirates Covers and a Clemente Book.
Lot 258. 12 Periodicals Including “Baseball” and “SI” with Pirates Covers and a Clemente Book. The earliest offering is the Nov. 1947 issue of “Baseball Magazine” with Ralph Kiner and Johnny Mize on the cover; both are shown inside in an article titled “The Home Run.” Vg copy with extensive spine splits; the covers remain attached. “Sports Illustrated” is the source of three covers: Sept. 28, 1970, Danny Murtaugh on a fold-out cover with Leo Durocher and Gil Hodges, vg-ex; Aug. 2, 1972, Willie Stargell, vg-ex, and May 30, 1977, Dave Parker, ex. All three issues have labels. Two issues of “Sport” are without labels: June 1979, Dave Parker, faded cover, and April 1980, Willie Stargell, ex-m. Roberto Clemente is on the cover of “Pittsburgh Baseball and Me,” which commemorates his 3,000th hit in 1972, ex. Clemente is featured also on the covers of the 1973 paperback book “Roberto Clemente” from United Press International, ex-m, and the May 1989 issue of “Beckett Baseball Card Monthly,” ex. This collection also has four copies of the program for the 2001 Baseball Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, one vg-ex and three nm. Bill Mazeroski is pictured with Hilton Smith, Kirby Puckett and Dave Winfield.
Winning Bid $15.
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