2026 Spring Auction
Thu, Mar 12, 2026 01:00PM EDT - Sun, Mar 29, 2026 10:30PM EDT
Timed Auction in Progress ... Currently on Lot Lot 72
1978 Willie Mays Signed United States Passport with Related Documents from The Willie Mays Collection
Current Bid
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An intimate and historically resonant piece from The Willie Mays Collection, this 1978 Willie Mays signed United States passport — accompanied by related documents — offers a deeply personal window into the private life of the greatest all-around player in baseball history. Passports are among the most direct personal documents any public figure can produce: signed in the subject's own hand, government-issued, and containing biographical details that exist nowhere else in the standard memorabilia record.
Part of The Willie Mays Collection, the provenance chain for this piece begins with Mays himself — the most unimpeachable sourcing available for any memorabilia item. The accompanying related documents add further biographical and legal context to what is already an extraordinary primary source artifact.
Personal documents from Mays' post-playing career are among the rarest items in his collecting category. A signed passport from his own archive represents a category of intimacy and provenance depth.
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