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1950 Bowman #22 Jackie Robinson PSA 8 NM-MT
HIGH-GRADE BOWMAN JACKIE!!!... Statistically speaking, iconic Hall of Fame second sacker Jackie Robinson may not be the greatest player to ever put on cleats, but breaking the MLB color barrier in 1947 will always stands as our National Pastime's most unparalleled historical event. For this reason, hobby enthusiasts gravitate towards Jackie's high end baseball cards, and one of them is offered here, his 1950 Bowman subject in an astonishing PSA 8 NM-MT holder. To date, PSA has encapsulated nearly 1,500 examples, with a mere sixteen or 1% graded higher. Jackie Robinson's diamond achievements include an MVP award, leading the Dodgers to six pennants and a world championship, stealing bases, hitting for average and power, fielding his position flawlessly and being considered one of the fiercest competitors the game has ever seen. Yet, for all of his stellar accomplishments, his place in baseball history will forever be correlated with being the first African American to play Major League baseball.

His courage throughout the late 1940s and '50s was supernatural, and for all of those reasons, Robinson received the ultimate compliment when his legendary number "42" was retired for all of MLB teams. Issued the year after Jackie claimed the 1949 NL MVP Award, this brilliant offering is one of the finest high-grade '50 Bowman Jackie's you will ever come across, starting with his picturesque batting pose that exhibits near-perfect resolution, vibrant color and extremely rare near-perfect centering fine centering. An incredible array of blue, green, brown, and grey hues creates a museum quality image framed by four somewhat toned borders. Ultra-sharp corners, a gleaming obverse side surface, and a relatively clean flipside exhibiting only a faint vertical print line complete this pack-fresh marvel that has stubbornly defied father time over the past 73 years. When you think of Jackie Robinson's supernatural courage and the seemingly insurmountable obstacles he faced each and every day, the prophetic phrase comes to mind: "You can and you will, because you believe you can and you know you will!"
MIN BID $7,500
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