Marie Mansfield Signed Baseball & Card Rockford Peaches – COA JSA

In 1951 Marie Mansfield teamed up with Rose Gacioch and Helen Fox to give the Rockford Peaches a strong one-two-three punch pitching combination. She collected a 16–8 record and a 2.85 earned run average in 30 games, ending fifth in wins, eighth in innings pitched (202), and third in strikeouts (121) behind Jean Faut of the South Bend Blue Sox (135) and Margaret Holgerson of the Grand Rapids Chicks (123).

Presented is an unofficial baseball autographed by Maire Mansfield. She signed it on the sweet spot in black ink (“3-4”) with  an inscription, “Rockford Peaches 1950-54”. Also included is a baseball card of her autographed in black ballpoint (“9”).

Authentication: JSA Basic Cert & Sticker

This ball is from one of the largest and most comprehensive collections of autographed baseballs in the world. Altogether they were easily displayable in custom shelf form and alphabetically displayed nonetheless. The choice of medium was visually easy for the encyclopedic collector who put these together. It took several decades to amass these rare autographs of the most prominent entertainers, historical figures, and sports players.  It proved quite difficult to acquire autographs of non-ballplayers on such an odd object (a baseball) but diligence proved otherwise and that it’s possible. So, now with the collection complete and his shelves empty there’s only one thing left to do….bid on this item and start the challenge to see how far you can take it.