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Heritage Auctions had this card certified by Beckett Authentication Services (BAS) Period signed/playing days auto f rom the Mike Greenbaum Collection More Information from Heritage Auctions: Mike Greenbaum was an autograph collector who lived in New York in the 40s & 50s. He spent his time going to ballparks getting autographs in person and amassed a huge collection of signed cards Mike Greenbaum spent many summer afternoons haunting these now-lost monuments to our national pastime, his hands gripping trading cards relating to whatever teams doing battle that day. While the signed baseball card has become so entrenched in the hobby that the trading card companies themselves are involved in their production and distribution today, young Greenbaum was decades ahead of his time in this pursuit, and this auction features some of the most precious treasures of his baseball-mad youth. The Mike Greenbaum Collection is a celebration of a gilded age of New York City baseball when the all roads to the World Championship ran along the lines of a single subway system.