(LOT 670)
Jackie Robinson Large Format Signed Cancelled Check PSA/DNA MINT 9 Rare
Jackie Robinson has written this check out to CHOCK FULL o'NUTS. As history has it, in 1953, the coffee brand was introduced to supermarkets. Several years later baseball star Jackie Robinson became the company's vice president and director of personnel, after retiring from the game. Robinson was a second baseman who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball in the modern era. Robinson broke the baseball color line when the Brooklyn Dodgers started him at first base on April 15, 1947. The Dodgers, by signing Robinson, heralded the end of racial segregation in professional baseball that had relegated black players to the Negro leagues since the 1880s. Robinson was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962. This is one Jackie Roosevelt Robinson signed cancelled check you don't want to miss.

MIN BID $300
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