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Spring 2012 Catalog Auction  >  Sports  >  The Sal LaRocca Collection

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Lot 538: Two Max Carey Signed Brooklyn Dodgers Contracts

ITEM DESCRIPTION

 
Reserve: $400.00
Winning Bid: $1,141.24
Price Realized: $1,363.78
Number Of Bids: 12
Auction Date:6/15/2012 9:00 PM EST

These original documents from the 1932 and 1934 seasons are Official National League contracts to manage the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Club. Both are signed by Max Carey and club officials including Sam McKeever, in addition to League president John Heydler. The signatures average 8/10 in ink, and the contracts have mailing folds. Carey was a Hall of Fame player with the Pittsburgh Pirates, with whom he swiped 738 bases - a National League record that stood for nearly half a century.

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