2023 FALL PREMIER AUCTION
Wed, Nov 15, 2023 09:00PM EST - Sun, Dec 3, 2023 09:51AM EST
Timed Auction
Lot 399
Feb. 1955 Sandy Koufax Pre-Rookie Debut Original Photograph by William C. Greene PSA/DNA Type 1 (Slab + LOA)
Sold for
$1,290
Sold Price includes BP
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A youthful and dapper-looking Sandy Koufax is pictured here admiring a baseball next to fellow Dodgers minor leaguer Jack Langer in February 1955 prior to Spring Training. This never-before-seen original photo was snapped by famed NYC-based sports photographer William C. Greene just a few months before Koufax made his official MLB debut (6/24/55) for Brooklyn. Super clean photo with exceptionally sharp clarity of the legendary southpaw alongside a fellow prospect who never made it the bigs. The image itself is 7.75" by 8.25" and appears a bit off-frame within slightly lobsided, mostly clean white border. Razor sharp corners and edges by original photo standards. The reverse has the official "WM. C. Greene" stamp with a "Feb 1955" date stamp and a Sporting News archive sticker at the bottom; pen and pencil notations identify the two subjects.
Date/Year: February 1955
Generation: First (Original Negative within two years)
Photographer: William C. Greene
Archive: The Sporting News
Captioned: No
Dims: 8" x 10"
Condition: NM-MT
Encapsulated Type I by PSA/DNA with Full LOA
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