Catcher Ken O'Dea played for four different teams across a 12-year major league career, mostly as a backup and defensive specialist.  Signed cards of O'Dea are difficult, as he passed away in 1985.  The signature on this 1940 Play Ball card has been graded MINT 9 by PSA/DNA.  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.