Spring Premier Auction 2013
Wed, Apr 10, 2013 08:00PM EDT - Mon, Apr 29, 2013 12:00AM EDT
Timed Auction
Lot 202
ROLLIE FINGERS' 1981 MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL MOST VALUABLE PLAYER AWARD (FINGERS LOA)
Sold for
$38,653.20
Sold Price includes BP
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Rollie Fingers joined an incredibly exclusive club in 1981 by winning the Most Valuable Player Award andthe Cy Young Award in the same season. Only nine pitchers have managed the feat: Don NewcombeSandy Koufax Denny McClain Vida Blue Fingers Willie Hernandez Roger Clemens and Dennis Eckersley.Fingers joined the Milwaukee Brewers in 1981 after his sterling four-year free-agent stint with the Padresand apparently found the return to the Junior Circuit to his liking. In arguably his finest campaign henarrowly missed out on the mythological feat of holding opposing batters below a single run per 9 inningsending with a microscopic ERA of 1.06 and 28 saves in that strike-shortened season in 1981.
Fingers 1981 MVP Award is a circular showpiece comprised of a 16-inch in diameter black wooden backingwith an inlaid Dieges & Clust sterling silver plaque with 10K gold components. Around the border in raisedlettering the 12-inch in diameter octagonal plaque reads KENESAW MOUNTAIN LANDIS MEMORIALBASEBALL AWARD. In the center resides a 6 1/2-inch square baseball diamond design featuring thefollowing elements: a BBWAA enameled insignia on home plate a baseball-and-bat 1981 logo abrooch-sized bust relief of Landis and the words MOST VALUABLE PLAYER AMERICAN LEAGUE andROLLIE FINGERS and MILWAUKEE BREWERS on a 5-by-1-inch silver nameplate. It is remarkably wellpreserved with very little no evidence of handling on the lustrous silver and gold surfaces and minimaltarnishing of the sterling silver sections and only the tiniest and barely discernible small scratches on eitherthe black circular base or the primary octagonal plaque itself. It is a truly stunning presentation of one ofthe most important awards of the modern era a designation that helped redefine the role and stature ofthe postwar relief pitcher and promoted the continued elevation of the key strategic role into the loftyposition it currently holds in our national game.
Comes with a LOA from Rollie Fingers.
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