This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 12/12/2020
Offered here is a lot of 50 single-signed baseballs from various world leaders, including presidents and prime ministers. All of the baseballs have been signed on Official Major League Allan H. Selig or Official Major League Robert D. Manfred, Jr. stamped baseballs. Signatures include Christian Wulff (Germany), Manny Mora (Micronesia), Tuilaepa Malielegaoi (Samoa), Ivaca Dacic (Serbia), Mehdi Jomaa (Tunisia), Nicos Anastasiades (Cyprus), Georgi Margvelashvili (Georgia), Nebojsa Radmanovic (Bosnia & Herzegovina), Andrus Ansip (Estonia), Youssef Chahed (Tunisia), Vladimir Lukik (Republika Srpska), Suchina Krapraypon (Thailand), Georgi Blizhnaski (Bulgaria), Ejup Ganic (Bosnia & Herzegovina), Artur Tahir Rasizadeh (Azerbaijan), Zeljko Komsic (Bosnia & Herzegovina), David Granger (Guyana), Ameena Gurib Fakim (Mauritius), Valdis Dombrovskis (Latvia), Edi Rama (Albania), Ertha Pascal Trouillot (Haiti), Krisjanis Karins (Latvia), Bakir Itzetbegovic (Bosnia & Herzegovina), Salam Fayed (Palestinian National Authority), Horacio Cartes (Paraguay), Marie Louise Preca (Malta), Erna Solberg (Norway), Abolhassan Banisadr (Iran), Madam Chandrika Kumaratunga (Sri Lanka), His Royal Highness Prince Alexander (Crown Prince of Yoguslavia), Rabbie Namaliu (New Guinea), Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat (Mongolia), Ali Laarayedh (Tunisia), Frank Steinmeier (Germany), Irakli Garibashvili (Georgia), Anote Tong (Kiribati) Alex Van Der Bellen (Austria), Nicola Sturgeon (Scotland), Oba Rilwan Akiolu (Nigeria), Joe Clark (Canada), Sauli Ninisto (Finland), Peter Mutharika (Malawi), Goodluck Jonathan (Nigeria), Hage Geingob (Namibia), Felipe Calderon (Mexico), Jimmy Morales (Guatemala) and Danny Faure (Seychelles). 33 signatures of the 50 signed baseballs have been pre-certified by Beckett Authentication. Beckett did not pre-certify the remaining 17 signatures due to no existing exemplars in their database. The 17 signatures come with a letter of provenance from Randy L. Kaplan, who states in his letter that the baseballs were obtained directly by him or through the help of top foreign government officials. The 17 signatures include Morales, Mutharika, Lukic, Rasizadeh, Jomaa, Tong, Akiolu, Radmanovic, Straujuma, Mora, Komsic, Fayyad, Larayedh, Kraprayon, Blizhnaski, Ganic and Granger.