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Card Sets Box Score Game Card (1949) – PRFL0017
Box Score Game Card:Â PRFL0017
Card Date:Â October 2, 1949
Autograph(s): Card #1 – Don Newcombe (D.  Card #2 – Jack Banta (D).
Grade Value:Â Â V
Significance of autograph (valuable):
This was a pennant race that, in mid-September, you would have thought the Cardinals had won easily. But on the last day of the season, the Brooklyn Dodgers, with their rookie ace Don Newcombe on the mound, won an exciting 9-7 game. Though Newcombe got knocked out early, he did have two RBIs; he would go on to be the Dodger ace for five more years. He would be the starting pitcher in the historic final games of the 1950 and 1951 seasons, and Newcombe signed all three. And further, Newcombe would be the first player in MLB history to have won the Rookie of the Year, CY Young, and MVP awards. His autograph here in his rookie year is certainly special.
Note: Card #2—Jack Banta ended up being the pitching hero on that clinching day.