PERFECTION LOT David Cone & Joe Girardi Signed Baseball Yankees – COA JSA

Presented is an ONL (Coleman) baseball autographed by David Cone & Joe Giardi.  David Cone signed it on the sweet spot in a blue ballpoint pen (“9”). Joe Girardi signed it on the side panel in a blue ballpoint pen (“9”).

David Cone & Joe Giardi On July 18, 1999, Girardi caught David Cone’s perfect game. During the World Series-winning 1999 season, Girardi played in 65 games batting .239 with two home runs and 27 RBIs.

David Cone was a member of five World Series championship teams – 1992 with the Toronto Blue Jays and 1996, 1998, 1999, and 2000 with the New York Yankees.  He pitched the sixteenth perfect game in baseball history in 1999. On the final game of the 1991 regular season, he struck out 19 batters, tied for second-most ever in a game. The 1994 Cy Young Award winner, he was a five-time All-Star and led the major leagues in strikeouts each season from 1990–92.

Joe Girardi played the catcher position for the Chicago Cubs, Colorado Rockies, New York Yankees, and St. Louis Cardinals during a big-league playing career that spanned from 1989 to 2003. He won three World Series championships with the Yankees in the 1990s and served as the catcher for both Dwight Gooden’s no-hitter and David Cone’s perfect game.

Authentication: JSA Basic Cert & Sticker

This ball is from one of the largest and most comprehensive collections of autographed baseballs in the world. Altogether they were easily displayable in custom shelf form and alphabetically displayed, nonetheless. The choice of medium was visually easy for the encyclopedic collector who put these together. It took several decades to amass these rare autographs of the most prominent entertainers, historical figures, and sports players.  It proved quite difficult to acquire autographs of non-ballplayers on such an odd object (a baseball), but diligence proved otherwise and that it’s possible. So, now with the collection complete and his shelves empty there’s only one thing left to do…. bid on this item and start the challenge to see how far you can take it.