Spring 2020 Premium Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 5/20/2020
After winning the World Series in 1932, The Yankees spent the next few seasons re-tooling for their next dynasty. While the team awaited the arrival of Joe DiMaggio and the other young players that would dominate the AL from 1936 to 1939, able performers such as Ben Chapman, Johnny Allen and Dixie Walker teamed up with veterans Red Ruffing, Lou Gehrig and Bill Dickey to keep great, if not pennant-winning baseball, at home in Yankee Stadium.
This Official American League William Harridge stamped baseball has been signed by 25 players from the 1934 New York Yankees. Hall of Famer Babe Ruth’s faded black ink signature is on the sweet spot. Other signatures include Hall of Famers Lou Gehrig, Tony Lazzeri, Lefty Gomez and Bill Dickey, along with Samuel Byrd, Johnny Murphy, Harry Smythe, Jimmie DeShong, Myril Hoag, Frank Crosetti, Red Rolfe, Art Fletcher, Danny MacFayden and many other signatures that are too faint to read. This comes with a LOA from Beckett Authentication (A23692).