Lot 39. 1955-57 New York Yankees Picture Pack of 12 – Mantle, Envelope. SCD’s Standard Catalog considers this to be a 1955-57 issue similar to the Jay Publishing photo packs, while Beckett lists it as a 1956 Jay Publishing product. The players are Bauer, Berra, Byrne, Carey, Collins, Ford, Howard, Mantle, Martin, McDougald, Stengel and Turley. Nice nm to nm+ set. The Byrne card has eight printing marks of various sizes, and the Mantle has a very light 1/8” x ¼” stain in the lower border. The original envelope is vg to vg+.
Winning Bid $168.
Lot 123. Roger Maris: A Man for All Seasons Signed by His Son, Roger Maris, Jr. Maury Allen, New York Post sportswriter, wrote this 272-page 1986 biography. An apparent first edition, the book is nm in an nm dust jacket. Maris’ son signed the flyleaf with a large, bold 10 autograph. Above, he wrote, “Stay as sweet as you are.” Amid controversy, hostility and a threatened asterisk, Maris eclipsed Babe Ruth’s single-season home run record with 61 in 1961. Almost half a century later, his feat apparently remains unsurpassed without chemical enhancements. Of course, the record books show that Maris’ record fell in 1998, 37 years after he established it; Ruth’s record stood for 34 years. Maris passed away in 1985 at the age of 51. Authenticated by Kevin Keating.
Minimum Bid $20.
Lot 124. Magazine Photo Signed by Red Rolfe, New York Yankees All-Star Third Baseman. Rolfe made the All-Star team from 1937-39, played in six World Series, batted .289 over his career and was named the Yankees’ all-time third baseman in 1969, the year he passed away. He was athletic director at Dartmouth from 1954-67. Rolfe signed a 2” x 2 ½” magazine photo. His signature grades mint 9. Authenticated by Kevin Keating.
Winning Bid $30.
Lot 127. David Wells Autographed Baseball, Perfect Game Ticket Stub and Display. Wells’ signature is a mint 9 on the sweet spot of an OAL Budig baseball. The ticket stub, which is ex, is framed to about 15” x 21” with a May 18, 1998 Newsday color page that celebrates Wells’ perfect game. Facing the Minnesota Twins the day before, Wells had pitched the 13th perfect game in baseball history. Wells was already 34-years old before he found real success with the New York Yankees in 1997. From then through 2005, he won 137 games while losing only 67. Authenticated by Kevin Keating.
Minimum Bid $30.
Lot 133. 44 Different Magazine Photos Signed by New York Yankees. The signatures are predominantly mints 9s and gem mint 10s with some grading lower. Many are on full-page images: Bucky Dent, Tommy John, Ron Kittle, Al Leiter, Sparky Lyle (vg-ex 4), George Medich, Spike Owen, Lou Piniella, Dave Righetti, Steve Trout, Willie Randolph, Don Slaught, Mike Pagliarulo with Dennis Rasmussen and Brian Dayette, Scott Bradley, Pat Clements, Mike Easler, Ray Fontenot, Charles Hudson (personalized), Mike Kekich, Steve Kemp, Elliott Moddox, Mike Pagliarulo, Dennis Rasmussen, Hal Reniff, Rick Reuschel, Rick Rhoden, Andre Robertson, Rafael Santana, Joel Skinner, Mike Stanley, Brian Taylor, Bob Tewksbury, Jeff Torborg, Ed Whitson and others. Some pages have folds or edge creases or chips. Authenticated by Kevin Keating.
Winning Bid $45.
Lot 141. New York Yankees 1961 “American League Champs” Pin, Two Other Pins. The 3 ½” 1961 pin in red and black on white is ex. The two other pins are the ½” “I Am a Yankee Fan” in brown and red on white, ex, and the 2 ¼” “Bring Back Billy Martin 1,” red, blue and white, ex. Proceeds from the sale of this lot will benefit the Society for American Baseball Research, a non-profit membership organization open to all that fosters the research, preservation, and dissemination of the history and record of baseball.
Minimum Bid $75.
Lot 145. 1937 Type 1 World Series Wire Photo of Lefty Gomez. The 6 ½” x 8 ½” photo captures the New York Yankees star ready to hurl a pitch toward an unidentified, likely hapless New York Giants batter. Gomez was the Series’ top performer as he won Game 1, the source of this photo, 8-1, and then returned to wrap up the Series in Game 5, 4-2. The photo from International News Photos is vg with excellent contrast, a corner crease, a number of light creases and some “waves” from the caption attached to the back.
Winning Bid $40.
Lot 152. Wonderful Yankee Stadium 1940 “Baseball Championship” Full Ticket. None of New York’s major league teams made it to the 1940 World Series, but Yankee Stadium hosted a championship game nevertheless. On Sunday, Sept. 15, the New York Department of Sanitation took on the city’s Police Department in a benefit for the Sanitation Department’s Welfare Fund. Ex red, blue and gray ticket shows a policeman batting and a Colonial America figure serving as the umpire. The ticket measures about 2 ¾” x 6 ¾”.
Minimum Bid $75.
Lot 156. 3 Babe Ruth Books – The Babe Ruth Story and The Real Babe Ruth. Both the hardback and softcover versions of The Babe Ruth Story are present. “As told to Bob Considine,” the 1948 book is promoted as “My only Authorized Story.” The hardcover is a g+ to vg ex-library copy with the g-vg cover in Mylar adhered to the book. The 96-page softcover, a stated first edition, is vg-ex with a small stain and scuff and minor creases on the cover and clean vg+ to ex pages except for tape marks on the first title page. The Real Babe Ruth by Dan Daniel, 1963 second edition, is a 162-page nm-m extensively illustrated softcover that has been hardbound between orange boards. Proceeds from the sale of this lot will benefit the Society for American Baseball Research, a non-profit membership organization open to all that fosters the research, preservation, and dissemination of the history and record of baseball.
Winning Bid $75.
Lot 157. 10 Baseball Books, 4 on the Yankees – Ruth, Berra, Mantle and Ford. Hardbacks unless otherwise noted. The books on the Yankees are: Yogi, with Ed Fitzgerald, 1961 first edition, vg book and dust jacket. Babe Ruth: His Life and Times, Paul Adomites, 1995 apparent first, ex-m/ex. Whitey and Mickey, with Joseph Durso, 1977, ex-m/ex. The Mick, with Herb Gluck, Players or former players are the authors of three books: My Own Particular Screwball, Al Schacht, 1955, ex book, dj absent. Pennant Race, Jim Brosnan, 1962 Book Club edition, ex/vg-ex. I’m Glad You Didn’t Take It Personally, Jim Bouton, 1971, ex-m/vg. The three other books are: The Baseball Life of Willie Mays, Lee Greene, 1970 paperback, vg. The Official Encyclopedia of Baseball, Hy Turkin, 1956, vg+, no dj. And The World Series, Joseph L. Reichler, 1978 apparent first, ex+/ex.
Winning Bid $20.
Lot 158. Hardback Books on Ruth, DiMaggio and Mantle. 1. The Babe: The Game That Ruth Built, Lawrence S. Ritter and Mark Rucker, 1997 apparent first edition, nm-m book nm dj. 2. Me and DiMaggio, Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, 1986 apparent first, owner’s name on a label on the front end-page, nm book and dj. 3. Baseball’s Most Valuable Players, George Vecsey, 1966, Mantle on the cover, ex book, no dj as issued.
Winning Bid $10.
Lot 159. 52 Books on the Yankees – Histories, Ruth, Mantle, Gehrig Biographies, Etc. Hardbacks unless otherwise indicated. Nine histories or record books complement the biographies and autobiographies, which dominate this collection. Sparky Lyle’s The Bronx Zoo leads the list of hardbacks; 1979, ex-m+ book and dj. Other hardbacks cover the Sixty-one season (Tony Kubek, 1967 assumed first edition, water damaged), the Yankee-Boston rivalry (Harvey Frommer, 1982, stated first edition), nm book and ex-m dj, the 1920s-50s (Frank Graham Jr., 1981), ex/ex, and Yankee Stadium (Joseph Durso, 1972, water damage). Paperbacks are: This Date in New York Yankees History, Nathan Salant; The Ultimate New York Yankees Record Book, Walter Le Conte; The Greatest of All: The 1927 New York Yankees, John Mosedale, and An Illustrated History, George Sullivan; these books average ex. Brief biographies of more than a dozen 1950s Yankees are presented in Tom Meany’s The Magnificent Yankees, 1956, ex book, vg dj. Babe Ruth is the subject of biographies by Meany, 1947, vg, missing dj; Robert Smith, 1974 apparent first edition, nm book, ex-m dj; Ken Sobol, 1974 state first, vg-ex/ex; Marshall Smelser, 1975, nm-m/ex-m+; Kal Wagenheim, 1974, nm/ex, and Dorothy Ruth Pirone, My Dad, The Babe, 1988, nm-m/nm. Also, a copy of an essay by Smelser, The Babe on Balance. Joe DiMaggio is the author of two of 10 books that relate to his life and career: Baseball for Everyone, 1948, p-f, complete, water stained, no dj, and Lucky to be a Yankee, 1947, vg, no dj as issued. Biographies on DiMaggio are by Christopher Lehman,-Haupt, Richard Gilliam (pb), Maury Allen, Richard Ben Cramer, George De Gregorio (pb), Michael Seidel (ex-library), Dick Johnson, and Roger Kahn Joe & Marilyn: A Memory of Love, 1986, ex book in vg-ex dj. The DiMaggio hardbacks, excluding the ex-library copy, average nm in ex-m djs, while the paperbacks average ex. Casey Stengel is the author of one book and the subject of five others. Casey at the Bat: The Story of My Life, 1962, vg+/vg, highlights the Stengel collection, which includes biographies by Creamer, Durso, Allen, Gene Schoor and Ira Berkow (ex-library). These hardbacks average vg/vg. Lou Gehrig is the subject of three biographies: My Luke and I by Eleanor Gehrig, ex-m/vg-ex; Lou Gehrig: The Iron Horse of Baseball by Richard G. Hubler, vg book, missing dj, and Lou Gehrig: Pride of the Yankees by Paul Gallico, vg book, dj absent. There are four Yogi Berra books: 1954 and 1965 editions of the same biography by Joe Trimble, both vg; It Ain’t Over, ex-libris, ex book with a vg-ex dj, The Yogi Book, a 1998 nm pb. Four books on Mickey Mantle, including two autobiographies: All My Octobers, 1994, ex/vg, and The Quality of Courage, 1964, water damaged. Also, two biographies: Mickey Mantle Mister Yankee by Al Silverman, 1963, vg+, and The Last Hero by David Falkner, 1995, ex-libris, ex/vg+. Among the other (auto)biographies is Yankee Batboy by Joe Carrieri, 1955, vg+/vg and books written by Irwin Stambler, Schoor, Allen, Peter Golenbock and Milton Shapiro. Players covered are Whitey Ford, Billy Martin, Bob Turley and Catfish Hunter. Two of these books are missing dust jackets; overall, the books grade ex, and the djs, vg-ex. Many of the books have a Ruth 20-cent cent and first day of issue cancellation inside. The Meany book on Ruth is autographed by Detroit football star Andy Farkas. Proceeds from the sale of this lot will benefit the Society for American Baseball Research, a non-profit membership organization open to all that fosters the research, preservation, and dissemination of the history and record of baseball.
Winning Bid $102.
