Offered is a framed art print of the 1980 World Series champion Philadelphia Phillies baseball team, with the signatures of 33 of the members of the team, including Hall of Famers Mike Schmidt and Steve Carlton, along with Pete Rose.  The full-color 20 x 28-inch black metal framed print has the 1980’s era Phillies logo in red across the top, and the legend “1980 World Champions” in blue below the logo.  There is an illustration of red, white and blue bunting below a red stripe, below the headline.  The artist, Dick Perez, has illustrated vignettes of all the Phillies players, manager and coaches across a white background with light green highlights. Among the notables featured, are, in order from top left to bottom right:  Greg Luzinski at bat (signed by Luzinski in black marker); Mike Schmidt (at the center, In red & white warm-up jacket; Schmidt has signed his name in black marker); Garry Maddox at bat in full-figure (Maddox has signed below his figure in blue marker); A right profile of Tug McGraw in his wind-up (McGraw has signed his name in black marker); Steve Carlton (left profile head & shoulders; the lefthanded pitcher has signed his name below his chin in blue marker: Larry Bowa (below Carlton, he has signed his name in black marker); and Pet Rose (in his batting stance; Rose has signed his name in blue marker across his left arm).  Each player (except for Nino Espinosa) and coach, along with manager Dallas Green, has signed on or beneath their image.  There is a small “Phillies 10th Reunion 1980 World Champs” logo in red, white, blue and gold in the bottom left, and a blue, white and red “Old Timers Series The Equitable” logo in the bottom right. This item has been authenticated by Steve Grad of Beckett Authentication and comes with a LOA.

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