Goldberg Coins and Collectibles

Sale 86

The Manuscripts, Collectibles & Space Auction

Sports

Lot	Photo	Description	Realized
Lot 1224		1954 Cleveland Indians Signed Team Photo. Glossy B&W, 20"x14¾" photo of the 1954 American League Champion Indians. Shot and mounted on hand cardboard by Arthur Somers. The photo was signed by all the members and enhanced, in the same hand, in blue ink. Careful study reveals the original signatures fading, which is probably the reason a member of the Kress family enhanced the signatures. Includes Al Lopez (as manager), Bobby Avila, Bob Lemon, Early Wynn and Bob Feller. The corners are peeling from the cardboard, but the players' images, as well as signatures are not affected. Estimated Value $250 - 300. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $156
Lot 1225		Baseball - Superb Signed Portrait Still of Joe DiMaggio. Joe DiMaggio, a 13 year career with the New York Yankees known as "Joltin' Joe" with his amazing 56 game hitting streak. and during his tenure the club winning 10 American League pennants and 9 World Series championships. Offered is this very fine 8" x 10" photo, boldly signed (JSA graded) along pants leg. Estimated Value $250 - 300. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $144
Lot 1226		Baseball Greats - 8 Signatures Including Mays, Drysdale, Snider, Lasorda, Killabrew and Gwynn. 8 great signatures of baseball almost all on 8" x 10" photos except where noted. First a signed application for a liquor license by Don Drysdale in Hawaii and application is signed 5 times by Drysdale (JSA graded), a signed white card by Duke Snider of the Brookly/LA Dodgers, the balance signed portrait stills, many in color of Willie Mays, Tom Lasorda, Harmon Killabrew (573 below signature, his number of home runs), Tony Gwynn, Derrick Lee and Jim Northrup. Estimated Value $300 - 500. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $168
Lot 1227		Baseball Greats - Signed Photos by Joe DiMaggio and Bobby Thomson. Two signed photos by legends of baseball. First a color 8" x 10" portrait boldly signed along pants leg by the great Joe DiMaggio PSA/DNA graded. The second is montage of moments of Bobby Thomson's 1951, 3-run homer "The shot heard 'round the world", that clinched the pennant for the Giants against The Dodgers. Both in excellent condition. Estimated Value $300 - 500. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $168
Lot 1228		Baseball Sports Collection. Eighteen signed Baseball Hall of Fame Commemorative Player Plaque postcards, 5½" x 3½", color. Each player has signed on his own commemorative postcard. Signatures include: Bob Feller, Willie Mays, Juan Marichal, George Kell, Ralph Kiner and Joe Sewell, to name a few. Together with a photo signed by Joe Cronin 10" x 8", black & white, glossy. Boldly signed in blue ink. Picture captures Cronin swinging at home base. Framed to an overall size of 11½" x 9½". First Day Cover signed by Don Larsen, Commemorating the 30th Anniversary of the 1956 World Series, red ink, decorative color illustration, stamped and postmarked, Bronx, New York, Oct.8, 1986. All three items are fine. Estimated Value $150-UP. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $132
Lot 1229		Ty Cobb - Handwritten and Signed Letter. Tyrus Raymond "Ty" Cobb was considered one of the greatest all around baseball players in history. Playing 22 seasons for the Detroit Tigers, Cobb was one of the most aggressive baserunners the game had ever witnessed and won 9 consecutive American League batting titles from 1907-1915. In 1936, the first balloting was held for election to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. Cobb received the most votes of the five electees and came within four votes of unanimity a record that held until the mid-1990s. Offered is a 10½" x 7¼" handwritten letter on personal letterhead, dated 5/5/57 explaining to a Keith Sutter how to go about obtaining vintage photos through Sporting News to which he would then be pleased to sign. Also included is the original envelope. In superior condition. Estimated Value $2,000 - 3,000. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $1,200
Lot 1230		UCLA Coaching Legends - John Wooden and Terry Donahue Inscribed and Signed Portraits. 2 coaching legends who made history at UCLA with a legacy of championships, two signed 8" x 10" inscribed and signed photos. First, considered one of the greatest college basketball coaches in history, John Wooden, with 10 NCAA National Championships between 1964 and 1975, a legend of college basketball to this day. Signed in flair pen a note of thanks for support and interes, signed John Wooden, UCLA. The second, a very youthful image of Terry Donahue coach of the UCLA Bruins from 1976 to 1995 with 151 wins and three trips to the Rose Bowl. Again an inscription of thanks inscribed and signed Terry Donahue. Estimated Value $100 - 200. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 1231		1980s, Muhammad Ali Signed Gold Glove. Right hand Ringside gold glove signed on the glove fist by the great heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali. The glove was given by Ali to astronaut Buzz Aldrin, who was a crew member of the Apollo 11 mission and was the second man on the Moon. Mr. Ali and Mr Aldrin have been friends for many years. Accompanying the glove is a 15" x 12¾" white board that was used to protect the glove in packing upon which Mr Ali wrote "To Joan and Buzz/Muhammad Ali (signature)/Love is the net, where Hearts are Caught like/Fish" with a sketch of a heart next to the quote. Bold signatures. Estimated Value $300 - 400. Ex Astronaut Buzz Aldrin Collection. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $630
Lot 1232		Boxing - Collection of 4 Autographs, Max Baer (Written Note), Sugar Ray Leonard, Jake La Motta and Moon Mullins. Collection of 4 autographs of US boxers signed on a variety of items. Max Baer, a nicely inscribed note to "The little Champ sending loads of hugs and kisses and a thank you for a letter" signed "Max" on the inside blank page of a Christmas card which has printed under the holiday greeting, "Mary, Max and Max II", a nicely signed card by Sugar Ray Leonard, a signed 8" x 10" black and white photo while young of Jake La Motta, immortalized in the Martin Scorsese film Raging Bull signed "Jake La Motta Raging Bull" and finally a very unusual and rare original vintage photo 5" x 8" addressed to the actress Anne Rutherford (Gone With The Wind) by a boxer named Moon Mullins. Mullins, born Michael O'Connor co-opted the name Mullins for his boxing career which was short lived. Years later long after the boxing gig faded and assorted jobs, he turned to crime then murderered a man and found himself on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list and subsequently arrested in the early 1960's. Estimated Value $250 - 400. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 1233		Boxing Greats - Vintage Signed Photos, A Spectacular Jack Dempsey and Jersey Joe Walcott. Two boxing greats in this lot of signed vintage 8" x 10" stills, both JSA graded. The first is a fantastic double-weight vintage original portrait from a New York City photography studio in 1925 of Jack Dempsey, photograph absolutely striking with its warm sepia tones. Dempsey was one of the most popular boxers of his generation, held the World Heavyweight Championship from 1919 to 1926, voted the 6th Greatest Boxer of the 20th Century by AP in 1999 and frankly, one of the legendary athletes of all time. Inscribed and signed portrait in blue fountain pen this is an exceptional and highly desireable vintage autographed image. Conveying with photo is an original envelope sent May 20th, 1935 to an address in Hollywood from Jack Dempsey's Restaurant. The other signed image is of Jersey Joe Walcott (born Arnold Raymond Cream) boldly signed. Walcott was World Heavyweight Champion in boxing and at one time held the record as the oldest ever to hold that title until George Foreman. Later Walcott was a featured player in the film The Harder They Fall with Humphrey Bogart and then entered into local politics in New Jersey. Estimated Value $450 - 600. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 1234		Collection of 12 Signatures from a Variety of Sports Notables Including Joe Namath, O.J. Simpson and Frank Gifford. A wide variety of autographs by notables of sports including a signed 5" x 7" newswire photo of Joe Namath, two autographs on cards by O.J. Simpson one laminated, a model release signed and dated 1967 by Frank Gifford, two autographs by women's tennis great, Helen Hull Jacobs, one on a vintage tennis magazine photo, the other on a menu dated July, 1934, a long inscription and list of championships won by 1950's surfing great Rabbit Kekai, a signed vintage 8" x 10" photo of tennis great, Pancho Gonzalez, 90's Hockey star Blake Sloan, a signed authorization (JSA graded) with a talent agency by legendary horse jockey, Willie Shoemaker dated 1978, autographed (JSA graded) by nationally acclaimed and widely read sportswriter, Henry Grantland Rice, and finally a signed vintage 8" x 10" still of Buddy Bomar one of the all time champions of bowling in the 1940's and 1950's then moving into coaching and sportwriting. Estimated Value $250 - 350. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold