Sadaharu Oh Signed Vintage Mizuno Game Model Baseball Glove JSA COA

Introduction

Displayed is a baseball glove signed and inscribed by Sadaharu Oh, the baseball player who holds the World Professional record for career home runs, at 868. Oh was born in Japan to a Chinese father and a Japanese mother in 1940. The first baseman played 18 seasons in the Japanese Central League for the Yomiuri Giants, Japan’s equivalent of the New York Giants. In addition to his lifetime home run mark, Oh holds the following Japanese baseball records: RBIs (2,170), Slugging (.634), Walks (2,390), and OPS (1.080). He once described his love of hitting: “I had reached the point where I simply lived to hit. How can I say it without sounding foolish? I craved hitting a baseball in the way a Samurai craved following the way of the sword. It was my life.” Oh’s love of baseball helped him reach the Japanese baseball Hall of Fame. The signed glove is a left-handed Mizuno fielder’s mitt. On the inside pinky finger slot of the glove is stamped, “Professional Model/Perfectly stitched with nylon.” On the back wrist strap is a Mizuno manufacturer’s tag. To the left of that tag is a hand-printed “1982,”. On the outside pinky finger slot is machine printed “K. Ichikawa.” In the glove’s pocket is imprinted, “Mizuno Dynamic/[model] BGN 3100.” Oh has signed the glove in Kanji, using a black fiber-tip marker to sign on the outer thumb slot. Beneath his signature, Oh has added an inscription (meaning “effort”), written in Kanji. The glove shows good use, and yet it is still in excellent condition, and the glove comes with a JSA Letter of Authenticity.

Bin #9