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Lot 1445: Complete 1947 Montiel Album with Ruth, Gehrig, Cobb, Williams & DiMaggio

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Reserve: $500.00
Winning Bid: $1,372.85
Price Realized: $1,640.56
Auction Date:6/18/2003 9:00 PM EST

The most desired of all the Cuban albums in that this contains the desired American baseball players. Card album is complete with 180 affixed sports cards. Includes the boxers (Louis, Armstrong, Chocolate), Cuban baseball (Dihigo, Luque, Reyes, Crespo), and the American players (Ruth, Gehrig, Cobb, Williams, DiMaggio, Greenberg, Feller, Dickey, Ruffing, Ott, Musial, Foxx, Cronin, Hubbell, Mize, Medwick and more). Ossie Bluege card is substituted with Gabby Hartnett, which says on the back he is Bill Dickey (don’t ask!?). Plus, wrestlers, and Cuban baseball minor-leaguers. Album is Good, cards are o/w VG-EX.

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