2004-09
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 8/31/2004
1951 Dogers program signed on cover by Jackie Robinson and Roy Campanella, and on the interior again by Robinson and Campanella with Pee Wee Reese. Fine. Although the Negro League and Major Leagues were segregated, they did play against each other in exhibition games. During one of these games, Branch Rickey who ran the Dodgers offered Campy a contract. Thinking it was for another Negro League team, Campy turned it down. Talking to Jackie Robinson later, he found out that Robinson was also offered a contract -- for the actual Brooklyn Dodgers. Campenella had the chance to right his mistake, and shortly afterwards signed his own contract with the Dodgers.
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