Admission pass for the “Challenge Match Play” golf tournament between Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb for the benefit of the USO at Fresh Meadow Country Club on June 27, 1941, measuring 3″ in diameter, signed on the reverse in pencil, “Babe Ruth” and “Ty Cobb.” In very good to fine condition, with light overall soiling, and a stain to the right edge affecting neither signature. Accompanied by a full letter of authenticity from PSA/DNA.
Ruth and Cobb played a three-round golf tournament in June 1941, challenging each other in matches in Newton, Massachusetts; Flushing, New York; and Detroit, Michigan. After winning the first round, Cobb said, ‘In all my life I never competed under such pressure. In my 25 years of baseball, I never had to bear down as hard as I did in that match.’ This pass is for the second round in Flushing, in which Ruth emerged victorious. Cobb won the deciding match, despite shooting fifteen strokes over par. A remarkable piece signed by two of baseball’s early titans.
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