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Card # 24
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This Great Game 1960s
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| Player |
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Team |
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Warren SPAHN (HOF)
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Shoulders slumped, looking down and away
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Milwaukee Braves
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| Top Auction Price |
Total Sold |
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Last Sold |
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$ 53.00
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3
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8
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4
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January 17, 2024
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About the Player
A short bio from the Helmar “This Great Game” card back: Served three years in World War II, fighting in the Battle of the Bulge and nearly losing his life in an explosion on a bridge in Germany. He returned to become a big winner for the Braves, using a textbook perfect overhand delivery and a high leg kick. The big lefthander was named for President Warren G. Harding and his father, Mr. Spahn of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. Calls his breaking ball, which snaps down from twelve-o’clock to six, “Uncle Charley.”
About the Series
Helmar continues to delight as the This Great Game franchise roars into the 1960’s! This can only be described as a startling, groundbreaking issue. This Great Game, the 1960’s takes no prisoners—every effort has been made to leave collectors in awe. This is no overstatement. Sanjay Verma, master of the gouache miniature, returns to create more of his special brand of magic with the player portraits. The front card design has been carefully crafted to have that familiar 1960’s feel—without being a stogy derivative of graphic roads thoroughly mined. Player selection is typically Helmar in that the nearly forgotten are celebrated alongside immortals. What is possible with card backs, normally designed as after-thoughts, have been completely reimagined in a way that makes them just as important as the fronts. The formation of the backs recognizes that the 1960’s were of time of upset, re-thinking, revolt. In art we celebrated (or endured) Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, among many others. But what did we tack up on our walls? Black light posters—gaudy, bold and scandalous. This series isn’t just imaginative—it is visionary!
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