Three choice lots from upcoming Heritage auctions
Baseball
The question mark in the catalog entry for this ticket stub, the highest graded in PSA’s registry, is unnecessary: “The most important baseball ticket of the post-war era?” Just Google the date: April 15, 1947. What follows is entry after entry for Jackie Robinson Day, when the 28-year-old from Cairo, Georgia, suited up as a Brooklyn Dodger and shattered baseball’s color barrier in front of 26,623 at Ebbets Field. So, yes. The answer is yes.
1947 Brooklyn Dodgers Debut of Jackie Robinson Ticket Stub
PSA VG 3
Estimate: $200,000+
Auction: August 19-20
Football
Only days ago, the NFL announced it would honor Jim Brown’s life and legacy as part of its Hall of Fame weekend, August 3-6 in Canton, Ohio. To some generations, he was an actor and civil rights activist – the greatest of The Dirty Dozen, founder of the Black Economic Union. But the Cleveland Browns fullback was also among the game’s all-time greats; there wasn’t an award he didn’t win, among them this NFL Rookie of the Year trophy collected in 1957.
1957 Jim Brown NFL Rookie of the Year Trophy
Estimate: $50,000+
Auction: August 19-20
Golf
Walter Hagen – Sir Walter to some, The Haig to others – won the PGA Championship five times, four (from 1924-27) of them in a row, which explains his standing as one of golf’s all-time greats alongside men named Nicklaus, Woods and Hogan. The medal hails from the 1926 PGA Championship held at Long Island’s Salisbury Golf Club and looks very much like a prize awarded to the man who became golf’s first million-dollar earner, down to the diamond.
1926 Walter Hagen PGA Championship Gold Medal
Estimate: $60,000+
Auction: August 19-20