Auction Your 1919 World Series Ticket for up to $3,000 or More at Nate D. Sanders Auctions
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Nate D. Sanders Auctions Sells 1919 World Series Ticket
The 1919 World Series is best remembered as the setting to the Chicago Black Sox scandal. After winning the American League pennant with a record of 88-52, the Chicago White Sox went on to lose the best of nine World Series to the Cincinnati Reds, five games to three. It was later believed that mob boss Arnold Rothstein played a hand in fixing the outcome as eight members of the White Sox were paid off to intentionally lose the World Series. After an investigation, these eight players went on to be banned for life from Major League Baseball by the newly appointed Commissioner of Baseball, Kenesaw Mountain Landis. The most controversial player banned is Shoeless Joe Jackson, who at the time was one of the best hitters in the league, and despite confessing to his involvement under oath, later went on to profess his innocence to no avail.
The scandal was written about in the book “Eight Men Out” and was later adapted into the 1988 film of the same title, which stars John Cusack and Charlie Sheen.
We at Nate D. Sanders Auctions sold a ticket stub from game two of the 1919 World Series game at auction for $3,010. See below for details.
1919 World Series Ticket Stub Game 2
Extraordinary high-grade ticket stub from Game 2 of the 1919 World Series, held at Cincinnati’s Redland Field. Game 2 of the 1919 World Series witnessed another lackluster effort by Chicago’s infamous “eight men out” as they conspired to “throw” the Series to the Reds. The main culprit in this game was pitcher Lefty Williams. Although Williams made a better attempt to conceal his deliberate ineffectiveness than did Eddie Cicotte in Game 1, the result was the same. Williams allowed just four hits, but his six walks helped the Reds score all the runs they would need in a 4-2 win against the punchless White Sox. Stub measures approximately 4.25″ x 2″. Few, if any, 1919 World Series ticket stubs have survived in near mint condition, but this example comes close. Only two very small horizontal surface wrinkles extend from right border and one would be hard pressed to find a finer example. Sold for $3,010.
We also sold the following 1919 World Series memorabilia:
1919 Chicago White Sox/Cincinnati Reds World Series Ticket Stub — A Rare Piece of History From the Infamous “Black Sox” Scandal — Encapsulated by PSA/DNA COA
One of a very few Cincinnati Reds ticket stubs from the infamous 1919 White Sox/Reds World Series “Black Sox Scandal,” where eight members of the Chicago White Sox franchise conspired to throw the World Series. Ticket is from Game 2 of the Series, held at Redland Field in Cincinnati. Minor chipping to one edge and toning in spots, else very good condition. Encapsulated by PSA/DNA; there are only seven 1919 World Series Game 2 ticket stubs authenticated. Very rare. Sold for $1,849.
1919 World Series program for the first game of the Series, played at Redland Field in Cincinnati on 1 October 1919. Complete 48pp. program features color covers and a centerfold of the infamous Chicago White Sox team whose members allegedly threw the World Series to the Reds. A scorecard on pages 23 and 27 is lightly filled out in pencil. Printed by Roessler Bros. in Cincinnati, program measures 9” x 12”. Chipping along edge of front cover, and centerfold detached from staple, but overall in very good condition with no missing pages and clean interior. Sold for $1,613.
FREE APPRAISAL. To buy, auction, sell or consign your 1919 World Series ticket that is for sale, please email your description and photos to [email protected] of Nate D. Sanders Auctions (http://www.NateDSanders.com).