Fred Fitzsimmons signed his 1940 Play Ball card vertically along the left edge, the signature grading NM-MT 8 by PSA/DNA. Fitzsimmons is a difficult signature to obtain on cards, as he passed in 1979, before the hobby boom. 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.