Center fielder Joe Marty won the PCL batting title in 1936, the year his former teammate Joe DiMaggio made his major league debut.  The following year, Marty made his own major league debut, batting .290 with the Cubs, and while he was no DiMaggio, he had a serviceable 5 year career.  Returning to the PCL after the war, he played with Sacramento for 7 more years and was a star, batting over .300 five times, driving in 100 runs or better twice.  He signed this 1940 Play Ball card in dark blue, a brilliant, handsome signature grading MINT 9 with PSA/DNA.  Marty passed away in 1984; signed examples of his card are tough.  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.