REDUCED. F/S 1958 San Francisco Giants auto baseball 27 signatures with Mays

[whitehse]

This is one of those situations where a co-worker has asked me to look at his baseball that he was given as a child and sell it for him. He is not a collector and really could not give a darn about sports but was given this ball by a distant relative back in the '60's as a form of "thank you" for being a pen pal and taking an interest in an old man (this is how it was explained to me). He has held onto this ball all this time and in a conversation about my many years of collecting he brought this ball in to get my opinion and sell it for him.

This ball is not varnished or coated
The signatures are between a 5 and 6
There are 27 signatures on this ball

This ball is from the first year the Giants were in San Francisco and is based on the fact that Jim King is on this ball and 1958 was the only year he played for the Giants. I posted this ball in the autographs section of Net54 so you can see the thread there but clicking on this link.

http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=239211

My co-worker would like to see $225.00 for the ball but is willing to listen to offers.



The sweet spot shows:
Manager Bill Rigney
Orlando Cepeda (rookie signature)



The next panel appears to show:
Hank Sauer
Nick Testa
Paul Giel
Ramon Monzant
Pete Burnside
Stu Miller
Jim Davenport
Jim Constable
Ray Crone





The next panel appears to show:
Daryll Spencer
Mike McCormick
Hank Thompson
Bob Schmidt
Ed Broussad
Ruben Gomez
Unknown (looks like Frank Baumann but I find no record of anyone with the name of Frank on the roster that year.





The next panel appears to show:
Al Worthington
Johnny Antonelli
Willie Mays
Don Taussig




The next panel appears to show:
Jim King (played one year with the Giants and that year was 1958)
Ray Jablonski
Whitey Lockman
Danny O'Connell
Willie Kirkland
Jim Finegan






Thanks for looking

Andrew