Strong 1940 Play Ball card of Gene Desautels, graded VG-EX 4 by PSA, the signature rating a perfect GEM MINT 10. The card originates from the Shibe Park collection of autographed cards, an original owner collection carefully collected by a teenage boy who, in 1939 and 1940, obtained many autographs from players arriving at the train station near Shibe Park, and continued for many years to obtain signatures in person and through the mail. Desautels signed this card in what appears to be black fiber-tip marker, similar to the 1939 card also featured in this auction, increasing the likelihood that the two cards were signed through the mail, in our opinion.