LEO DUROCHER- Baseball Legend SIGNED 3 X 5 Index Card in 1980s- COA from JSA

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LEO DUROCHER- Baseball Legend SIGNED 3 X 5 Index Card in 1980s- Includes a Cetificate of Authenticity from James Spence Authentication
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The card will be protected with cardboard and bubble-wrap. It will be shipped via USPS First Class Mail
ABOUT THE AUTOGRAPH
Leo Durocher
signed the card in 1984, while sitting in front of me the at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles,California.
He was introduced by the famed announcer Vin Scully, a longtime legend with the L.A. Dodgers. The announcement came, just as I was handing him the card. As the crowd cheered, he stood up and waved his hand (and the card) in gratitude. After that, he then sat down again, taking my pen and autographed the card.
ABOUT LEO DUROCHER
Leo Durocher
(1905 –1991), also nicknamed "
Leo the Lip
" and "
Lippy
", was a professional American baseball player,manager and coach. He was posthumously elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1994. After being scouted by the New York Yankees, Durocher broke into professional  baseball with the Hartford Senators (Eastern League) in 1925. He then joined the Yankees for two games. After spending two more years in the minors, playing for the Atlanta Crackers in 1926 and the St. Paul Saints in 1927, he rejoined the Yankees in 1928.
While Durocher was playing with the Yankees as a shortstop in the 1920s, his scrappy attitude and impressive efforts, led Babe Ruth call to him "The All-American Out" His hustling on the field gave him the famous nickname of "The Lip," due to his hard-scrabble banter with the umpires, executives and players. Durocher was known for his fiery temper & often sent to the bench to cool-off. He won the 1928 World Series with the Yankees. Because of his temperament, the Yankees manager (Miller Huggins) saw him as a potential candidate for manager. Durocher's stormy career involved clashes with authority, the baseball commissioner, and the press. He was ejected from the field 95 times in his career as manager.
During his career (after the Yankees) Durocher  also played with the Cincinnati Reds, the St. Louis Cardinals and the Brooklyn Dodgers. As a manager, Durocher worked with the Brooklyn Dodgers, the New York Giants, the Chicago Cubs, the Houston Astros and the Taiheiyo Club Lions. In the 1960s, he went on to coach the Los Angeles Dodgers. By the time he retired, with 2008 victories under his belt, Durocher was ranked the fifth of all time, among managers. Durocher was named to the National League's All Star team 3 times, once with St. Louis and twice with the Dodgers. In the 1938 game in Cincinnati, Durocher also hit the only Little League Home Run in All-Star Game history.