Auction Date:2016 Apr 03 @ 19:00 (UTC-7 : PDT/MST)
Location:2320 W Peoria Ave Suite B142, Phoenix, Arizona, 85029, United States
Official Major League Baseball has been hand-signed in blue ink pen by Hank Bauer (D 2007, Yankees).
Throughout his storied 14-season MLB career, Hank Bauer had a lifetime .277 batting average with 164 home runs and 703 RBI in over 1,500 games played. Bauer played on (7) World Series-winning New York Yankees teams & STILL holds the World Series record for the longest hitting streak (17 games...1956-58), while also appearing in (3) MLB All-star games. Perhaps Bauer's most notable performance came in the sixth and final game of the 1951 World Series, where he hit a three-run triple. He also saved the game with a diving catch of a line drive by Sal Yvars for the final out. At the close of the 1959 season, Bauer was traded by the Yankees to the Kansas City Athletics in the trade that brought them future MLB single season home run king Roger Maris...Bauer was also later the winning manager of the 1966 World Series Champion Baltimore Orioles! After a lifetime working in baseball, true American hero & MLB legend Hank Bauer passed away on 2/9/2007 at the age of 84....Hank Bauer, an American World War II Hero: One month after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Bauer enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps. While serving in the Pacific Theater, Bauer contracted malaria on Guadalcanal, but he recovered well enough to earn 11x campaign ribbons, 2x Bronze Stars & 2x Purple Hearts (for being wounded in action) in 32 months of combat. Bauer was wounded his second time during the Battle of Okinawa, when he was a lieutenant in charge of a platoon of 64 Marines. Only 6 of the 64 Marines survived the Japanese counterattack, and Bauer was wounded by shrapnel in his thigh. His wounds were severe enough to send him all the way back to the United States to recuperate!
The autograph includes an official James Spence Authentication (JSA) hologram and matching COA for authenticity purposes.
Authentication: JSA COA
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2320 W Peoria Ave Suite B142, Phoenix, Arizona, 85029, United States
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