1928 Philadelphia A's Ty Cobb Jimmie Foxx Tris Speaker Team Signed Baseball JSA
Official Reach American League (Barnard) baseball signed in ink on the sweet spot and side panels by 20 members of the 1928 Philadelphia Athletics team, including: Ty Cobb, Jimmie Foxx, Tris Speaker (ss), Al Simmons (ss), Mickey Cochrane, Lefty Grove, Jimmy Dykes, Joe Boley, Joe Bush, Sam Hale, George 'Mule' Haas, Ed Rommel, Jack Quinn, Joe Hauser, Carroll 'Lefty' Yerkes, William 'Kid' Gleason, Bing Miller, Rube Walberg, Ossie Orwoll, George Earnshaw. In very good condition, the manufacturer's stampings are strong, including the facsimile signature of AL President E. S. Barnard on a side panel. Led by a slew of Hall of Famers—Cobb, Foxx, Speaker, Simmons, Cochrane, and Grove would all be enshrined in Cooperstown—the 1928 Philadelphia A's finished with a 98-55 record, second only to the similarly stacked New York Yankees squad. It was the last big league season for both Cobb and Speaker, the first of Cochrane's two AL MVP campaigns, and Grove's first year as the league's winningest pit