Albersheim's 2014 Summer Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 7/24/2014
Val Picinich (D. 1942 at the age of 46) was born in New York and was a catcher for the Philadelphia Athletics (1916-17), Washington Senators (1918-22), Boston Red Sox (1923-25), Cincinnati Reds (1926-28), Brooklyn Robins/Dodgers (1929-33) and Pittsburgh Pirates (1933). In 18 seasons he played in 1,037 Games and had 2,877 At Bats, 298 Runs, 743 Hits, 166 Doubles, 26 Triples, 26 Home Runs, 298 RBI, 31 Stolen Bases, 314 Walks, .258 Batting Average, .334 On-base percentage, .361 Slugging Percentage, 1,039 Total Bases and 106 Sacrifice Hits.
We offer an eclectic grouping of items that derive from Picinich’s estate. This comprises of Picinich’s game used spikes (whether he wore these in the Majors or Minor Leagues, we don’t know). Tons of documents and a bunch of minor league lineup cards that date from his days in the Eastern Leagues. Hundreds and hundreds of pages of material. It could take one weeks to go through all of this and months to catalogue all the material. There are several signed items by Picinich too. This may end up being the bargain of the auction! Great breakup potential!
Comes with an original auction house letter that this collection derived from several years back as well as a
Letter of Authenticity from Richard Albersheim.