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Lot # 639: Cy Young Signed Baseball Dinner Program (PSA MINT 9)

Starting Bid: $300.00

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Item was in Auction "2023 Fall Classic",
which ran from 10/29/2023 7:00 PM to
11/18/2023 10:00 PM



Displayed is a Cy Young signed program from the April 15, 1946, Fifth Annual Ball Players of Yesterday Dinner Dance held by the Cincinnati Reds in nearby Kentucky, at the Dixie House. The program is possibly four pages, but as it is encapsulated it is not possible to know the number of pages. The program measures 5.3x6.75". Printed on front: "GREETINGS and Best Wishes/To the Baseball Players of Yesterday/The Cincinnati Baseball Club." Also printed on the front is the Reds' logo. On the back: Fifth Annual Dinner Dance/Ballplayers of Yesterday/Lookout House Dixie Highway ...." On the back of the program, tape covers about 3/8ths of an inch of the edges, so some wording is obscured. Cy Young still holds the all-time MLB record for games won at 511. He was an Inaugural Hall of Famer. In his 22-year Major League career (1890-1911), Young pitched for Boston in both the National and American Leagues, the St. Louis Cardinals of the NL, and two Cleveland teams, the Cleveland Spiders of the National League and the Cleveland Indians of the American League, and Young was also an Ohio native, so it is only natural that he should be a guest at the Cincinnati, Ohio, team's dinner dance. The program shows some darkening because of the passage of years. Young's signature is in pencil, and it is large and clearly written.

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