SOLD 1971 Sept 26th Ernie Banks Last Game Scorecard +Autos Chicago Cubs Wrigley Field
 

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1971 Sept 26th Ernie Banks Last Game Scorecard +Autos Chicago Cubs Wrigley Field
+ Autos Chicago Cubs played at Wrigley Field
Ernie Banks last Major League baseball game scorecard game played at Wrigley Field

Autographed on cover by Ferguson Jenkins, J.C. Martin, Bill Bonham, Larry Gura and Carmen Fanzone.

This signatures are in Pencil and ink and based on the provenance

It originally came with a Sept 26th 1971 dated ticket which I am keeping

I feel these signatures are 100% authentic

This a large 4 page score card on card stock measures 8-1/2 x 11

Dated 1971 on the back

Partially scored with players that were in this last Game of Ernie Banks career see safe link for box score

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bo...97109260.shtml

see safe link for more info On Ernie Banks Hall Of Fame Career

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That was the last hit for Banks during his career (obviously).

Very cool scorecard.

Edited to say:
I just went digging thru my collection and found that I have this scorecard, too. Mine is also autographed by a few players (your Fergie Jenkins trumps my Juan Pizarro) but the funny thing is that Bill Bonham must have always signed on the bat, when he could, because mine is signed in the exact same spot.

Edited again because:
It's also interesting to me, viewing from the perspective of an era when the most trivial of statistics are headline fodder, that neither scorekeeper mentioned this being the final game in Wrigley for Ernie. They wouldn't have known that it was his last game completely, because the Cubbies had three more games in 1971, but they were road games in Montreal, a city where Ernie evidently didn't feel like playing two in. But the Cubs were well out of playoff contention, and Banks was pushing 40 years old and his rapidly declining production must have sounded like a retirement after the season.

Doug

maybe be they knew it may have been Ernie's last Home game for sure