Lot # 902: Signed 1940 Play Ball #104 Paul Waner (HOF) - PSA/DNA A

Category: Autographed Cards

Starting Bid: $250.00

Bids: 38 (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



Outstanding 1940 Play Ball card signed by Hall of Fame right fielder Paul "Big Poison" Waner.  Just the seventh player in history to record 3,000 hits, Waner was a career .333 hitter.  After his brother Lloyd was elected to the Hall of Fame, the Waners became the second pair of brothers in the Hall, after Harry and George Wright. Waner died young, just 62 years old, in 1965, and his signature is considered tough, particularly on a card.  This example has been authenticated and encapsulated by PSA/DNA, a quite attractive example despite the presence of paper residue on the back, from scrapbook removal. 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.

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