Opening Day Auction 2014
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 4/26/2014
The Baseball Gods may have had a hand in the perfect game thrown by David Cone on a sunny Sunday at Yankee Stadium, July 18, 1999. It was Yogi Berra Day at the Stadium and Don Larsen, who had thrown the first perfect game in Yankees history during the 1956 World Series, was on hand to throw out the ceremonial first pitch to his historic battery mate Berra, who had recently reconciled his differences with boss Steinbrenner. Cone set down a Montreal Expos lineup that included a 24-year-old Vladimir Guerrero and his older brother Wilton. Cone’s perfect game was the 16th thrown in Major League history and the third thrown by a Yankee, the most recent perfect game in the majors was also thrown by a Yankee when David Wells turned the trick 14 months earlier. This ticket for the game was a $50 Field Box seat in section 8, Box 20, Row F, Seat 5 and is signed by Cone in bold blue Sharpie with a “P.G. 7-18-99” inscription is encapsulated by SGC and is PSA/DNA pre-certified.