Summer Premium Live and Catalog Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 8/6/2017
Offered is a game-used Official Major League Robert D. Manfred Jr. baseball with an autograph of Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz. “Big Papi” has signed his name in blue ink to the right of the blue-stamped Rawlings logo on the baseball, which was used in the Thursday, September 29, 2016 Red Sox at New York Yankees game. This was Big Papi’s last ever game at Yankee Stadium and the final time he faced the Yankees. The ball was pitched by Boston’s Junichi Tazawa in the bottom of the 7th to the Yankees’ Starlin Castro, who fouled it back to the screen. The Yankees won the game, 5-1; Ortiz, the designated hitter, was 0-for-1 with a walk in the game. The ball has a Steiner Sports hologram sticker (SS180771), a MLB Authenticated hologram (JB 814820) and a Fanatics Authentication hologram sticker (ZZ0082848). This item is accompanied by a LOA from Steiner Sports (230518).