The starting right-fielder on seven pennant winners and three World Series champions, Roger Maris earned two league MVP awards and a Gold Glove during a storied career which saw him total sixty-one dingers in 1961. Gorgeous color publicity photo of Roger at Yankee Stadium during the height of his fame is signed, large and bold, in blue sharpie "Best Always, Roger Maris." The 8x10" image and autograph are stunning. Maris signed many of these photo in the 1980's but this exemplar is as good as it gets. Comes certified by PSA and signature has been graded  a perfect 10/10!

My father Ed Kubina began going to card shows for autographs in the mid to late 1970s. The first one I remember was at Hofstra University in Long Island, NY, where Mickey Mantle was signing. My father brought my entire Girl Scout troop, paying their way, and gave them pictures for Mickey Mantle to sign. He told them if Mr. Mantle asked them who to personalize it to, tell him to sign “To Ed”. After eighteen Girl Scouts and I went through the line, Mickey looked up at my Dad when he finally made it through and said, “Hi Ed”. Over the years we went to every card show Mickey signed at in the Northeast. These were our family vacations. My dad went to well over 100 shows through the years in his quest for the signatures of players like Ted Williams, Joe DiMaggio, Billy Martin, and Whitey Ford. We also went to Induction Weekend at Cooperstown every year beginning in the 1980s. This is where we met and got autographs from Roger Maris along with dozens of other retired players. After Mickey Mantle’s death, my dad took a trip with my brother to Commerce, Oklahoma, where Mickey Mantle was born, and took pictures. He even took a small piece off the side of the barn wall that Mantle used to practice hitting balls against when growing up. That was obsessive. - Deirdre Leary, November 2018