2019 October Legends Closing October 19
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 10/20/2019
The New York Yankees baseball club is one of the most storied teams in all of sports, with 27 World Series championships won by a plethora of Hall of Fame players since the team landed in New York in 1903. The historic franchise is commemorated in this framed display of 117 signatures from former Yankees players and officials, on a white canvas with a painted red and blue Yankees logo at the center.
Among the notable signatures on this 16 x 20-inch canvas, mounted in a navy-blue cloth matte and a 20 x 24-inch black wood and glass frame, are Mickey Mantle, Yogi Berra, Don Larsen (who has inscribed “Oct 8 56” in blue marker below his signature), Joe DiMaggio, Hank Bauer, Sparky Lyle, Chris Chambliss, Mel Allen, Wade Boggs, Goose Gossage, Ron Guidry, Don Mattingly, Paul Blair, Graig Nettles, Lou Piniella, Roy White, Whitey Ford, Ralph Houk, Willie Randolph, Phil Rizzuto, Bobby Richardson, Clete Boyer, Phil Linz, Ed Lopat, Tom Tresh, Bobby Shantz, Gene Monahan, Reggie Jackson, Bill Moose Skowron and Jim Catfish Hunter. The signatures are in blue marker and blue pen on the white canvas surrounding the logo. This item comes with a LOA from Steve Grad of Beckett Authentication.