Historical Hockey Memorabilia Auction Fall 2013
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 11/5/2013
Rusty Staub, the late Gene Mauch and deceased HOFer Larry Doby are among the 28 members of the 1971 Montreal Expos who have autographed this team-signed baseball. Nicknamed Le Grand Orange for his fiery red hair, Staub was the Expos’ first big star and he led the team with a .311 batting average, 34 doubles, six triples, 19 homers, 97 RBIs and 94 runs scored in the last of three seasons in his first stint in Montreal. Rusty signed just to the right of league president Charles S. Feeney’s facsimile autograph stamp on this Spalding official NL baseball covered with lightly faded black ballpoint signatures. Mauch, who has signed on the sweet spot, managed the third-year expansion team out of the NL East to a fifth-place finish with a 71-90 mark. Doby, who was the Expos’ batting coach, became the first African-American player in American League history in 1947 with Cleveland. He has signed below Mauch at the top of the adjacent panel, along with the likes of Jerry Zimmerman, Jim Britton, Ron Woods, 1974 NL Cy Young Award winner Mike Marshall, Bob Bailey and Don Zimmer. The other panels are signed by the likes of Fairly, Laboy, Stoneman (two no-hitters), Raymond, Reed, Bateman, Brand, Wine, McGinn, Mashore, Sutherland, Boccabella, Fairey, Day, McAnally, Strohmayer, Renko, 1970 NL Rookie-of-the-Year Carl Morton and Jim Gosger. The ball exhibits toning and is nicely preserved overall.
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