1942
August 23 1942 Army & Navy Relief Fund ticket between the Philadelphia Athletics and the Boston Red Sox. All the teams played doubleheaders that day with the proceeds going to the relief fund but the biggest event occurred in New York where Babe Ruth and Walter Johnson faced each other in an exhibition and the Babe famously hit a long (but foul) final homerun into the third deck. Doesn't seem anything comparable happened in Philadelphia but I'm guessing it's one of the few tickets to feature a bomber.
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