1948 AL Pass Ticket

This is a rare and valuable ticket stub satchel that captures the historic moment of Satchel Paige's MLB debut in 1948, oldest RC age 42, First Afro-American AL pitcher.

The ticket features the iconic Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio, and Ted Williams, and is an original piece that is not a reproduction.

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6/13 Yankees Retire Babe Ruth uniform #3. Historic Ruth Speach at Yankee Stadium before the game.Ruth never returned to Yankee Stadium. He spent much of the next few months in a hospital and died on August 16. Nat Fein’s photograph, which appeared on Page 1 of the Herald-Tribune on June 14, won a Pulitzer Prize. Life magazine in 1999 described the photo, titled “The Babe Bows Out,” as “one of the greatest pictures of the 20th century.” Fein, who died in 2000 at age 86, once said, “I didn’t think it was a great shot.” Even so, he added that it “got the feeling” of that sad moment