Box Score Game Card (1974) – RBFL0088

Box Score Game Card: RBFL0088
Card Date: April 8, 1974
Autograph(s): Hank Aaron (D) – HOF; Al Downing.
Grade Value: VP

Significance of autograph (v-valuable):
This was an interesting situation.  We wanted Hank Aaron to sign the box score side of the game card.  However, he liked the article side so much because of its simplicity that he asked if he could sign the article side.  I am not sure we had an option.  Regardless, we granted hiss request.  However, we did have Al Downing, the Dodger pitcher who threw the pitch on that famous day, sign the box score side.  The importance of those two signatures never to underestimated.
What is more interesting is that eventually this day when millions of Americans tuned in to watch Aaron break the unbreakable, Babe Ruths’s career home run record of 713, will fade in time.  

Hank Aaron – Wikipedia
Al Downing – Wikipedia