Historical Hockey Memorabilia Auction Spring 2014
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 6/17/2014
From the early years of the Montreal Expos come four team-signed balls including their inaugural season 1969 plus the 1970, '71, and '72 seasons. The 1969 "Spalding Official Warren Giles National League" ball has approximately 30 signatures from that first Expos squad including Ron Fairly, Mack Jones, and Rusty Staub; the 1970 Spalding "Official League" ball features Staub, Fairly, Bobby Wine and about 16 others; 1971's "Official Charles S. Feeney National League" ball has approximately 26 sigs and includes the likes of Gene Mauch, Staub, Bailey etc.; and the 1972 "Spalding Official Chas. Feeney National league" ball shows approximately 23 sigs including Singleton, McCarver, and Mauch. The 1969 signatures have paled slightly but remain legible, and along with the players mentioned, we see Raymond, Sutherland, McGinn, Brand, Jones, Robertson, Mauch, Wicker, Morton, Renko, Zimmerman, Waslewski, Wine, Jaster, and more. The 1970 ball has signatures in dark blue, purple, and black and along with Staub, Fairly and Wine we see Renko, Raymond, Stoneman, Strohmayer, Day, Fairey, Brand, Sutherland, Laboy, Boccabella, Gosger, Morton, Mauch, Bailey and a couple others; The 1971 ball has dark blue signatures and has a streak of dark yellow going through parts which doesn’t affect the names at all, and along with Mauch, Staub, and Bailey we see Wine, McAnally, Fairey, Reed, Woods, Raymond, Morton, Laboy, Sutherland, Renko, Boccabella, Strohmayer, Brand, Mashore, Day, Fairly, Stoneman, McGinn, Swanson, Bateman, McDonald and a few others: And from 1972, along with Singleton, McCarver and Mauch we see nicely signed sigs of Morton, Torrez, Stoneman, Foli, Jorgenson, Hunt, Day, Mangual, Walker, Strohmayer, Mashore, Fairly, Breeden, Piche and several others.
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