Sotheby's and SCP Auctions will offer one of two known Washington Senators' Walter Johnson jerseys. Emerging after some 80 years of seclusion in the estate of Johnson's former teammate Eric "Swat" Erickson, the jersey is one of the most important baseball artifacts ever discovered.
News-Antique.com - Nov 30,-0001 - On June 24th, Sotheby's and SCP Auctions will offer one of two known Washington Senators' Walter Johnson jerseys, the only example in private hands. Emerging after some 80 years of seclusion in the estate of Johnson's former teammate Eric "Swat" Erickson, the jersey is one of the most important baseball artifacts ever discovered (est. $200/300,000).
The Walter Johnson jersey headlines an auction of Important Sports Memorabilia and Cards which also includes significant New York Yankees items, a prominent single-owner Basketball Jersey Collection, as well as material representing the most prolific figures in the history of America's most popular sports. Another cornerstone piece in the auction is baseball's reigning Home Run King Hank Aaron's 1954 Milwaukee Braves rookie road jersey (est. $150/250,000).
New York, New York – On June 24th, Sotheby's and SCP Auctions will offer one of two known
Washington Senators’ Walter Johnson jerseys (est. $200/300,000), the only example in private
hands. Emerging after some 80 years of seclusion in the estate of Johnson's former Senators
teammate Eric "Swat" Erickson, the jersey is one of the most important baseball artifacts ever
discovered. The Walter Johnson jersey headlines an auction of Important Sports Memorabilia and
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Cards which also includes significant New York Yankees items, a prominent single-owner Basketball
Jersey Collection, as well as material representing the most prolific figures in the history of America’s
most popular sports. Another cornerstone piece in the auction is baseball’s reigning Home Run
King Hank Aaron’s 1954 Milwaukee Braves rookie road jersey (est. $150/250,000). Aaron’s
record 755-career home runs stands as one of the most hallowed records in all of sport, and has
engendered even greater reverence as the mark is approached by Barry Bonds. The 1858 Fashion
Course All Star Game “Scorers Report” from the Baseball Match between the “New York
Nine” and the “Brooklyn Nine” (est. $100/200,000) will also be included. Property from the sale
will be on exhibition at Sotheby’s galleries from June 19th to 23rd.
Lee Dunbar, Director of Sotheby’s Collectibles department, said: “In each one of the
Sotheby’s/SCP auctions we have broken new ground in sports memorabilia, offering the bat that
Babe Ruth used to hit the first home run ever at Yankee Stadium, the contract selling Ruth from the
Red Sox to the Yankees and Joe DiMaggio’s 1936 Yankees rookie jersey. For this auction we’ve
unearthed the road jersey of the second most successful pitcher of all time, Walter Johnson, who
remains to this day the greatest Senator of them all.”
Of the selection of material slated for the June, 24th sale David Kohler, President of SCP Auctions,
stated, “In every Sotheby’s/SCP Auctions sale, we take pride in bringing forth historically important
material that is fresh to the marketplace or largely uncirculated. In that regard this auction is our
finest to date. Advanced collectors will see many of the finest pieces in the sale for the first time in
the pages of our catalogue.”
Walter Johnson's 1920's Washington Senators’ Jersey from the Estate of a Former
Teammate and Friend
