Pepper Paire Signed Baseball & Card Grand Rapids Chicks – COA JSA

An All-Star catcher, Pepper Paire was a fine defensive player with good range on the field and a strong throwing arm. She exhibited an aggressive catching style, leading to a broken collarbone in her rookie season. She suffered numerous injuries thereafter, but kept on playing. Basically a line-drive hitter, she had a compact swing and tremendous plate discipline, collecting a significant 2.63 walk-to-strikeout ratio (308-to-117).

Presented is an unofficial baseball autographed by Pepper Paire. She signed it on the sweet spot in blue ballpoint (“7-8”) with a lengthy inscription detailing her career as well as acknowledging the movie “A League of Their Own”. Also included is a baseball card of her autographed in black felt tip (“9”) with a “HOF ’88” inscription.

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.