After seven years with the Cardinals, utility infielder Jimmy Brown ended up with Uncle Sam for half of the 1943 and all of the 1944 season after winning a World Series over the Yankees the year prior. He returned for a short stint in Pittsburgh for 1946 then embarked on a long minor league managerial career, with time out for three seasons as a coach with the Braves. This PSA Authentic 1939 Play Ball has been taken from a scrapbook and signed in blue, with some fading seen on a PSA/DNA Authentic autograph that is nicely and neatly laid down, the only one of its kind in their database.  Paper loss is evident on the reverse, from scrapbook removal.  Brown died in 1977, and as a result, his signature is quite difficult on cards. 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.