Hersh Martin became something of a minor league star after four somewhat sporadic seasons with the Phillies in the late 1930's, briefly reappearing on the big league scene in 1944-45 with the Yankees as wartime fill-in rosters became the norm, then heading down again and finally retiring in 1957.  His 1939 Play Ball card is one of but two showing him with a major league team and is signed in blue ink using an initial for his first name. He died in 1980 amd was not exactly a household name during his major league playing days. The PSA/DNA 7 grade references a bit of lift in some of the top parts of a few letters of his autograph but it's all there.  A tiny speck of paper remnant from scrapbook removal by the family of the original collector appears on the reverse.  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.