This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 4/26/2024
Starting in the 1950s, the Tulsa Oiler Diamond Baseball Dinner was one of the best big league dinners in the country, organized by A. Ray Smith, owner of the Tulsa Oilers, a farm club of the St. Louis Cardinals. Every year, baseball’s greatest would attend. The offered pair of baseballs were signed on Saturday evening January 27th, 1974, when about a thousand people attended to see and hear Mickey Mantle, Stan Musial, Whitey Ford, Johnny Bench, Allie Reynolds, Paul Dean, Warren Spahn and Satchel Paige. The MC of the evening was Houston Chronicle sportswriter Morris Frank. Signatures on baseball one: Satchell Paige, Joe Medwick, Red Schoendienst, Bake McBride, Lloyd Waner and Ken Boyer. Baseball two signatures include: Stan Musial, Warren Spahn, Satchell Paige, Tom Greenwood, Joe Medwick and Bill Verdon. Pre-certified by Beckett Authentic.