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1958 Jackie Robinson Signed Check for Charlie The Brow's Funeral

1958 Jackie Robinson Signed Check for Charlie The Brow's Funeral

Jackie displays his tremendous class once again as he signs over one-hundred dollars to aid in the final expenses for the famed Brooklyn Dodger batboy Charlie DiGiovanni. He has noted at left in small print, "For funeral and other expenses connected with former Dodger batboy." Did he die of a broken heart due to the Bums' departure? All ink is NRMT, as is check itself. Charlie was the only Dodger with an open car to himself in the 1955 Victory Parade.The First. And, without question, the most significant man to ever play the game of baseball. The man who broke baseball’s color line, Jackie Robinson was also the first African-American to win the Most Valuable Player Award and the first to be honored as Rookie of the Year (the award is now named for him). He is also the only baseball player, black or white, to be on a United States postage stamp and minted coin and the first African-American to be elected into the National Baseball Hall of Fame (in 1962 he was elected in his first year of eligibility, the first since Lou Gehrig in 1939). While Babe Ruth changed the way in which we played the game, Jackie changed the way we think. We are proud to say that each of these select pieces are from the collection of Jackie’s wife, Rachel Robinson. Each will come with her signed letter of authenticity.


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