This lot is closed. Bidding ended on 12/1/2011.
Huge lot of 45 baseballs, each signed by a NY Mets team from throughout the team’s history, 1962 to present day. Most are official league baseballs signed in blue or black ink with the respective rating following its description. The balls are as follows: 1962: shellacked, 25 sigs with Stengel (ss-mngr), Hodges, Craig, Bell, Ruffing, Cannizzaro, Rogers Hornsby (scout), Zimmer, Smith and Thomas rating a 7 overall; 1962 (reunion) 19 signatures including Craig, Taylor, Kranepool, Anderson, Cook, Cannizzaro, Zimmer and Pignatano rating an 8 with MLB hologram; 1963: 27 sigs including Stengel (ss), Duke Snider, Cisco, Kranepool, Thomas, Moran, Coleman and Jackson rating a 7; 1964: 20 sigs include Stengel (CH), Cisco, Stephenson, Wakefield, Stallard, Kranepool and Bearnarth mostly faded rating a 5-6, light toning; 1965: 27 sigs mostly faded including Stengel (CH), Kranepool, Smith, McGraw, Hunt, Berra, McMillan, Cannizzaro and Schaffer rating a 5; 1966: 21 sigs including Westrum (stamp), Friend, Kranepool, McMillan, Swoboda, Grote, Murphy and Hiller lightly faded rating a 6; 1967: 23 sigs including Seaver (rookie), Westrum (ss-mngr), Grote, Cardwell, Swoboda, Taylor, Boyer, Charles & Harrelson rating a 7-8, toned; 1969: 29 sigs mostly faded including Hodges (ss), Walker, McGraw, Gentry, Dark, Garrett, Dyer, Koosman, Grote and Seaver rating a 5-6, toned; 1969: comm.. ball signed by 28 including Ryan, McGraw, Swoboda, Seaver, Cardwell, Dyer, Grote and Martin rating a 7-8, ball is toned and tan; 1971: over 20 sigs including Sadecki, Hodges (ss-mngr rating a 9), Matlack, Koosman, Kiner, Ryan, Seaver, McGraw, Agee, Berra, Walker and Koosman rating a 7-8; 1972: over 20 sigs including Sudakis, Mays, Berra, Matlack, Garrett, Kranepool, McGraw, Seaver, Staub and Koosman rating a 7-8, ball is toned with a large scuff mark; 1973: over 20 sigs including Boswell, Mays, Berra, Koosman, Harrelson, Millan, Garrett, Stone, Martinez, Seaver, Milner, Buzz, McGraw, Matlack and Grote rating a 6 some faded, light toning; 1974: over 20 sigs, two color ink including Berra (ss), Matlack, Ayala, Garrett, Pignatano, Staub, Dyer, Seaver, Martinez (CH) and McGraw rating a 7; 1975: 26 sigs including Berra (CH), Seaver, Torre, Webb, Staub, Harrelson & Millan rating a 7; five 1976: over 20 sigs including Frazier (ss-mngr), Baldwin, Millan, Grote, Kranepool, Seaver, Koosman, Ron Hodges and Harrelson rating a 6-7; 1977-81 Torre Managerial era balls, each with 20 plus sigs including Torre (ss), Staub, Mazzilli, Bailor, Mookie, Gibson, Zachary, Stearns, Glynn, Reardon, Harrelson, Espinosa, Apodaca, Swan and Ron Hodges rating an overall 7, toning throughout; 1980: toned ball with faded sigs, two color ink including Washington, Bedrosian, Watson and others, overall 5; 1983: over 20 sigs including Bamberger, Valentine, Mookie, Seaver, Stearns, Kingman, Frey, Swan and Mike Bishop, sigs are faded rating a 6, light toning; seven 1984-90 Davey Johnson era balls, each signed by over 20 including Darryl, Carter, Darling, Mazz, Santana, Doc, Hearn, Dykstra, Foster, Elster, Hojo, Knight, Terrell, Hernandez, Gibbons, Orosco and Miller rating an overall 7, some toning; two 1990-91 era Harrelson managerial balls with over 20 sigs each including Franco, Harrelson, Viola, Hundley, Stottlemyre, McReynolds, Carr and Innis rating a 9; 1991: over 20 sigs with Cubbage, Gooden, McReynolds, Stottlemyre, Franco, Viola and Innis rating an 8; three 1993-96 Dallas Green era balls, each over twenty sigs including Green, Hojo, Doc, Stottlemyre, Franco, Wine and Tanana rating a 7, light toning; six 1996-2002 Bobby V era balls with over twenty sigs each including Valentine, Franco, Valentin, Piazza, Mookie, Benetiz, Rickey, Rojas and Lidle rating an overall 6-7; two 2003-04 Art How era including Howe, Franco, Ziele, Wright, Stanton, Glavine and Lopez rating an 8; two 2005-08 Willie Randolph balls including Willie, Manuel, Wright, Pedro and others rating an 8. The lot is accompanied by a LOA from JSA.