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Lot #1356
Norm Cash

Once batted with a table leg

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Once batted with a table leg

First baseman who spent his entire career with the Detroit Tigers. Cash won the 1961 batting title and had 377 career home runs. He was a broadcaster for ABC baseball broadcasts in 1976, and also was an announcer for Tigers cable broadcasts for several years. He drowned in a fatal accident off Beaver Island in Lake Michigan when he slipped while aboard a boat, fell, and struck his head. He was 51 years old. Color satin-finish 10 x 8 head-and-shoulders photo of Cash in his Tigers uniform, signed in blue felt tip. In fine condition, with a few trivial surface bends. On July 15, 1973 during a game at Tiger Stadium where California's Nolan Ryan was dominating on his way to his second career no-hit performance, as a joke Cash brought a table leg to the plate instead of a bat with two outs in the 9th inning (he had struck out 3 times already that night). LOA Steve Grad/PSA/DNA and R&R COA.

Auction Info

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  • Dates: #316 - Ended December 13, 2006