Lot # 22: 1949 Uncatalogued Lefty O'Doul San Francisco Seals Tour of Japan Bromide Baseball Card

Category: Baseball Cards

Starting Bid: $50.00

Bids: 10 (Bid History)

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Item was in Auction "Auction 52 Ended 10/20/2017",
which ran from 10/3/2017 12:00 PM to
10/19/2017 11:00 PM



O'Doul was elected to the Japan Hall of Fame in 2002 for his contributions to baseball in Japan. He is one of four Americans enshrined. Lefty played for the U.S. All Star team in Japan during the Tours of 1931 and 1934, and later organized a number of postwar Tours, including the 1949 San Francisco Seals Tour of Japan, which was one of the first peacetime cultural exchanges between the U.S. and Japan following the war. "Frank O'Doul, Manager" is printed in Japanese on this blank backed card.

Size: 2 1/4" x 3 1/8"

Condition: The card has a number of surface imperfections most noticeable along the borders. It also has paper residue on the blank back from being pasted into a book. Overall Vg condition.

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