Lot # 994: Amazing July 12, 1955 All-Star Game Program w/33 Vintage Ball-Point Pen Signatures Players including Mantle, Aaron, Mays, Musial, Mathews & Banks (11 Total HOFs)! - Full PSA/DNA LOA

Category: Autographs

Starting Bid: $500.00

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Item was in Auction "Spring Rarities Auction 2020",
which ran from 5/6/2020 12:00 PM to
5/30/2020 7:00 PM




(LOT 994)
Amazing July 12, 1955 All-Star Game Program w/33 Vintage Ball-Point Pen Signatures Players including Mantle, Aaron, Mays, Musial, Mathews & Banks (11 Total HOFs)! - Full PSA/DNA LOA

This amazing 1955 All-Star Game Program has been signed by 33 different players in ball-point blue and black ink, with many of the scripts obtained at this July 12th game played at Milwaukee's by-gone County Stadium. Authenticated by PSA/DNA (full LOA is included), 11 of the scripts include the following Hall of Famers: Mickey Mantle, Yogi Berra, Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, Stan Musial, Eddie Mathews, Ernie Banks, Duke Snider, Whitey Ford, Red Schoendienst, and Robin Roberts. A 12th Cooperstown Inductee, Leo Durocher is likewise included, but his signature has been traced over in an unknown hand (along with Luis Arroyo & Bob Turley).

The 1955 All-Star was surely a game to be remembered, with the National League overcoming a 5-run deficit to best the Americans in a dramatic 12-inning affair via Stan "The Man" Musial's walk off homer off of Frank Sullivan's first pitch! Trailing 5-0 entering the bottom of the 7th inning, the N.L. whittled their way back into the game with 2 runs in the 7th and 3 runs in the 8th. Not surprisingly, the A.L.'s early lead was predominately the result of Mantle's mammoth 3-run blast off of Robin Roberts in the first inning. Incredibly, this 65-year old program has retained a majority of its original attributes with the two covers, all 36 pages and spine completely intact (minimal creasing is evident) as well as the center pages (18/19) fully scored in period-style pencil.

Most significantly, page 29's imposing Mickey Mantle "stand alone" centerpiece batting image has been boldly signed in blue ball-point ink, obviously reflecting a 1955 style autograph and the only script on that page. A magnificent keepsake from the 1955 Mid-Summer Classic, it includes an abundance of "vintage/period" All-Star scripts with all 33 signatures listed as follows along with their respective page numbers:

Page 11: Leo Durocher/HOF (traced over), Mayo Smith, Fred Haney; Page 12: Frank Thomas, Hank Aaron/HOF, Luis Arroyo (traced over); Page 13: Ransom Jackson, Willie Mays/HOF, Gene Baker; Page 14: Johnny Logan, Don Newcombe, Red Schoendienst/HOF, Stam Musial/HOF, Del Ennis; Page 15: Robin Roberts/HOF, Eddie Mathews/HOF, Ernie Banks/HOF, Don Mueller, Smokey Burgess; Page 16: Del Randell, Gene Conley, Duke Snider/HOF, Gil Hodges, Del Crandall; Page 17: Harvey Haddix, Ted Kluszewski, Joe Nuxhall, Stan Lopata, Sam Jones; Page 25: Bob Turley (traced over), Yogi Berra; Page 29: Mickey Mantle; Page 32: Whitey Ford

MIN BID $500
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