November 2009 Catalog > Sports > Baseball Memorabilia
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Lot 228: Earliest Hank Aaron Signed Baseball - 1953-54 Caguas Championship
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Rare ball from this championship team includes many Negro League signatures, plus a youthful and incredibly rare signature variant, “Henry Aaron.” Aaron sig is overall a 7/10, otherwise the ball and signatures are a 5/10 on this Spalding baseball. We have had only one other specimen of this baseball ever and the first brought in over $5,000. Condition is an 8/10. Comes with complete 1954 El Mundo newspaper when Caguas won this very championship. Aaron’s name is in the headlines, the first of many.
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