Holiday Auction Closing December 7 ,2019
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 12/7/2019
Presented is a National Football League greats and Pro Football Hall of Famers multi-signed vintage Rawlings presentation football with 59 signatures, including former U.S. President Gerald Ford, O. J. Simpson, Jim Brown and other football notables. The signatures are arrayed across the two brown leather and two white leather panels of the football and include Hall of Famers Jim Plunkett Don Meredith, Charlie Conerly and Crazy Legs Hirsch. Gerald R. Ford, the 38th President of the United States, has signed his name in black pen on the same panel as Hall of Famers O.J. Simpson, Eric Dickerson and Jim Brown. Ford was the center on the two-time National Champion University of Michigan football team (1932, 1934) and was Michigan’s MVP in the 1934 season. Other notable signatures include Hall of Famers Gale Sayers (in faded black pen), Mike Garret, Jim Otto, Gene Upshaw, Dick Bass, Mike Ditka, Dick Butkus, Merlin Olsen and Fred Belitnikoff. This item comes with a full LOA from Steve Grad of Beckett Authentication (A25519).