Lot # 799: Signed 1939 Play Ball #83 Gus Suhr - PSA/DNA MINT 9

Category: Autographed Cards

Starting Bid: $25.00

Bids: 4 (Bid History)

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Item was in Auction "Fall, 2023 Premier Auction",
which ran from 11/5/2023 12:00 AM to
11/25/2023 9:00 PM



Gus Suhr once held the National league record for consecutive games played at 822. A doubles-hitting First Baseman who also had good defensive skills, he toiled for some pretty bad Pirates and Phillies teams from 1930 to 1940. The 1939 Play Ball card here is graded Authentic by PSA with scrapbook remnants on the reverse seen.  He has signed it forcefully in blue ink, in a nicely rolling hand, PSA/DNA 9 in grade, leaving a sharp looking autograph behind. 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.  As is the case with many cards from the collection, paper loss is evident on the reverse from long-ago scrapbook removal.

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