1960s HARMON KILLEBREW Signed BASEBALL PSA/DNA Twins Team Ball HOF autograph old

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There will be NO ADDITIONAL shipping costs to multiple items won, please check our other auctions. This listing is for an ORIGINAL/GENUINE Single Signed HARMON KILLEBREW on the SWEETSPOT of an American League Joe Cronin Baseball. PSA /DNA G97963. Dream Relics has worked for 8 years tirelessly on researching, collecting, buying, selling, trading Autographs. Please check out our other auctions!Payment is made within 7 days after auction ends or communication needs to happen. We will NOT end the auction early, do not ask to have this transaction off Ebay. We have been a victim of extortion by Ebay member iceroadtrucker31 from dealing outside of Ebay. That will never happen again. Harmon Clayton Killebrew ( pron.: / ˈ kɪ lɨ br uː /; June 29, 1936 – May 17, 2011), nicknamed " Killer " and " Hammerin' Harmon ", was an American professional baseball first baseman , third baseman , and left fielder . During his 22-year career in Major League Baseball (MLB), he played for the Washington Senators who later became the Minnesota Twins , and for the final season of his career, the Kansas City Royals . When he retired, he was second only to Babe Ruth in American League (AL) home runs and was the AL career leader in home runs by a right-handed batter (since broken by Alex Rodriguez ). [1 ] He was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1984. Killebrew was a stocky 6-foot tall, 195-pound [2 ] hitter with a compact swing that generated tremendous power. He became one of the AL's most feared power hitters of the 1960s, hitting 40 home runs in a season eight times. In 1965, he played in the World Series with the Minnesota Twins, who lost to the Los Angeles Dodgers . His finest season was 1969, when he hit 49 home runs, recorded 140 runs batted in (RBI), and won the AL Most Valuable Player Award . Killebrew led the league six times in home runs and three times in RBIs, and was named to eleven All-Star teams. With quick hands and exceptional upper-body strength, Killebrew was known not just for the frequency of his home runs but also for their distance. He hit the longest measured home runs at Minnesota's Metropolitan Stadium , 520 ft (160 m), and Baltimore's Memorial Stadium , 471 ft (144 m), and was the first of just four batters to hit a baseball over the left field roof at Detroit's Tiger Stadium . Despite his nicknames and his powerful style of play, Killebrew was considered by his colleagues to be a quiet, kind man. Asked once what hobbies he had, Killebrew replied, "Just washing the dishes, I guess." [3 ] After retiring from baseball, Killebrew became a television broadcaster for several baseball teams from 1976 to 1988, and also served as a hitting instructor for the Oakland Athletics . He also divorced and remarried during this time, moving to Arizona in 1990 and chairing the Harmon Killebrew Foundation. Killebrew was diagnosed with esophageal cancer in December 2010, and died five months later. Contents [ hide ] 1 Early life 2 Professional baseball career 2.1 Washington Senators 2.2 Minnesota Twins 2.2.1 1961–1965 2.2.2 1966–1969 2.2.3 1970–1974 2.3 Kansas City Royals 2.4 Career hitting statistics 3 Later life 4 Character and legacy 5 See also 6 References 7 External links Early life Born in Payette, Idaho , Harmon Killebrew was youngest of four children to Harmon Clayton, Sr. and Katherine Pearl (May) Killebrew. His father, a painter and sheriff , was a member of an undefeated Millikin College football team who was later named an All-American under eventual Pro Football Hall of Fame coach Greasy Neale .[ 4] [5 ] According to family legend, Harmon Killebrew's grandfather was the strongest man in the Union Army , winning every available heavyweight wrestling championship. [5 ] Clayton encouraged Harmon and his brothers to stay active in various sports before his sudden death in 1953 at age 59. [5 ] As a child, Harmon played baseball at Walter Johnson Memorial Field, named after the Hall of Fame pitcher who spent part of his childhood in Idaho. [6 ] He worked ... read more

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