This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 3/27/2016
Top autograph expert Steve Grad of PSA/DNA was just blown away by this one, and that's a guy who's literally seen it all. Your eyes are not deceiving you, nor is our photograph--the inscription and signature, "To Rickey & Bruce, Best Wishes, Roberto Clemente," really is as dark and bold as it appears, an eleven on a scale of one to ten. An unblemished, creamy white ONL (Giles) ball serves as the ideal home for this paramount Clemente specimen. No superlative could adequately capture just how spectacular this ball is, though the label on the hermetically sealed cube reading PSA Mint 9 should begin to tell the tale. And for the record, the signature itself is graded a perfect 10, with only trivial imperfections on the ball itself reducing the overall grade of the ball to a MINT 9! Further discussion and research of the piece leads us to believe that this is likely the highest graded Clemente ball in existence. A piece for the collector who demands nothing but the very best. Accompanied by a full Letter of Authenticity & Grading from PSA/DNA.