Lot # 747: Rare Signed 1939 Play Ball #9 Jim Tobin - PSA/DNA MINT 9

Category: Autographed Cards

Starting Bid: $100.00

Bids: 3 (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



Jim Tobin concluded his major league career in Detroit, where he went out a winner with the World Champion Tigers squad of 1945. He has signed his 1939 Play Ball card up the left side in blue ink, graded as a PSA/DNA 9. Tobin is a tough signature as he died young, in 1969, and never got to make the autograph show circuit. A "1 of 1" in the PSA-PSA/DNA pop report for this signed card. Some paper remnants from scrapbook removal appear on the back of the card, hardly a deterrence given its rarity and beauty.  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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