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1948 Bowman #36 Stan Musial Rookie PSA 8 NM-MT
STAN THE MAN ROOKIE!!! Presented here is a spectacular PSA 8 NM-MT 1948 Bowman #36 Stan Musial Rookie, only bested by a fractional 0.7% of the nearly 2,200 PSA encapsulated examples! Legendary Hall of Famer Stan "The Man" Musial's uncanny hitting prowess is somewhat underrated, with his remarkable batting achievements only contested by the iconic Red Sox slugger Ted Williams during that same period. In 1941, the St. Louis Cardinals called up their 20-year-old star phenom Stan Musial, who, in only 49 plate appearances, provided the baseball community with a glimpse of things to come by posting an unfathomable .426 average. Indeed, Stan the Man was here to stay, and in the following 1942 campaign, he would bat a very formidable .315 as he was about to embark on one of the most spectacular careers in baseball history. Musial's classic portrait pose portrays the immortal slugger donning his Cardinals cap, emanating the finest possible contrast and resolution imaginable. Like most Musial rookies, the image is somewhat skewed, in this case favoring the lower left borders. Clean surfaces and right-angled corners are the final superlatives for one of card collecting's most coveted rookies, the inaugural masterpiece of the immortal Stan the Man!

MIN BID $3,000
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