| DATE SHOT: 1930s SUBJECT: Carl Hubbell APPROXIMATE SIZE: 6-1/4"x4-1/2" MARKS / STAMPING: Hand-signed by Carl Hubbell ORIGINAL or REPRINT: Signature is original, Photo is Type 4 - Second or later-generation photo, printed from a duplicate negative or wire photo process, in a later period SIGNER: Carl Hubbell COMMENTS / CONDITION: As with all of my signed items, the signature is guaranteed to pass further inspection by any major authenticator, or your money back. See scans for signature quality and photo condition. BIO: Carl Owen Hubbell (King Carl or Meal Ticket) was born in Carthage, MO and died in 1988 in Scottsdale, AZ. He played major league baseball from 1928 to 1943 as pitcher for the New York Giants, appeared in the 1933, 1936 and 1937 World Series, was selected 9 times as an All-Star, and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1947. In its 1936 World Series cover story about Lou Gehrig and Carl Hubbell, Time magazine depicted the Fall Classic that year between crosstown rivals Giants and Yankees as a personal struggle between Hubbell and Gehrig, calling Hubbell ...currently baseball's No. 1 Pitcher and among the half dozen ablest in the game's annals. Time said that while he was growing up on his family's Missouri farm, he practiced for hours...throwing stones at a barn door until he could unfailingly hit knotholes no bigger than a dime. Hubbell's primary pitch was always the screwball, a particularly difficult ball to throw, and one that places an unusual amount of stress on a pitcher's arm. However, he threw it so frequently and for so many years that his left arm became permanently twisted, leaving his left palm facing outward at arm's rest. Hubbell is mentioned in the poem "Lineup for Yesterday" by Ogden Nash: U would be 'Ubbell If Carl were a Cockney; We say Hubbell and baseball Like football and Rockne. SKU: L13969
Item: L13969
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