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Lot # 487: 1948 Carl Erskine Brooklyn Dodgers True Rookie Contract

Starting Bid: $500.00

Bids: 4 (Bid History)

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Item was in Auction "Winter 2015 Catalog Auction",
which ran from 12/4/2015 9:00 AM to
1/8/2016 9:00 PM



Offered here is Carl Erskine's first major league contract. He spent two years as a free agent in the minors, so this is his first official contract. The four-page Uniform Player Contract is dated July 21st 1948, signed Carl Daniel Erskine on the dotted line, and the signature is Mint blue ink rating 10/10. This was the most important moment in his life to that age. According to the contract, he was to be paid $5000 per year. Signing for the "Brooklyn National League Baseball Club Inc." is team President Branch Rickey. Carl broke into the majors a year before Don Newcombe, and from 1948-50 was used primarily as a reliever, going 21-10. Folded otherwise in NM-MT condition.

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