| TEAM: Cleveland Indians SIGNER: Joe Sewell APPROXIMATE SIZE: 3"x5" MARKS / STAMPING: Hand-signed by Joe Sewell ORIGINAL or REPRINT: Original 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 conition and signature quality. BIO: Joseph Wheeler Sewell was born in Titus, AL and died in 1990 in Mobile, AL. He went to college at the University of Alabama. He played major league baseball from 1920 to 1933 as shortstop and 3rd baseman for the Cleveland Indians and the New York Yankees, appeared in the 1920 and 1932 World Series, and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1977. He holds the record for the lowest strikeout rate in major league history, striking out on average only once every 63 at-bats, and the most consecutive games without a strikeout, at 115. According to his obituary published in the New York Times, he played his entire Major League career using only one bat, which he kept in shape by rubbing with a Coke bottle and seasoning with chewing tobacco. In 1981, Lawrence Ritter and Donald Honig included him in their book The 100 Greatest Baseball Players of All Time. Two of his brothers, Luke Sewell and Tommy Sewell, also played major league baseball. Also, his cousin Rip Sewell was a major league pitcher credited with inventing the eephus pitch. Joe Sewell was a member of Pi Kappa Phi fraternity. SKU: CL02576
Item: CL02576
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