2019 Summer Premium Live and Catalog Auction Lots 1-82 Close Aug 1- 83-end close 8/10
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 8/11/2019
Presented is a Donald Trump signature on an Official Major League Robert Manfred Jr. baseball. The 45th President of the United States has signed his name in black marker to the left of the OML stamp on the baseball, which has the New York Yankees iconic interlocking “NY” logo stamped in blue. At least two Major League Baseball teams, the Philadelphia Phillies and the Boston Red Sox, wooed Donald Trump when he was a young first baseman at the New York Military Academy, according to a 2018 book, “The Presidents and the Pastime” by Curt Smith, who writes that both the Philadelphia Phillies and Boston Red Sox tried to grab Trump before going to college. Each time he said no, or as Smith wrote, “He chose ‘real money’ over baseball money.” This baseball comes with a full LOA from JSA (Z82082).