ERNIE BANKS Signed BASEBALL Chicago Cubs Team Ball HOF autograph old vtg single

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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 & Inscribed ERNIE BANKS 'MR CUB'. Signed on a National League Coleman Jr Baseball. 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. Ernie Banks Shortstop / First baseman Born: ( 1931-01-31 ) January 31, 1931 (age 82) Dallas, Texas Batted: Right Threw: Right MLB debut September 17, 1953 for the Chicago Cubs Last MLB appearance September 26, 1971 for the Chicago Cubs Career statistics Batting average .274 Home runs 512 Hits 2,583 Run batted in 1,636 Teams Chicago Cubs ( 1953 – 1971 )Career highlights and awards 14× All-Star ( 1955 , 1956 , 1957 , 1958 , 1959 , 1959² , 1960 , 1960² , 1961² , 1962 , 1962² , 1965 , 1967 , 1969 )Gold Glove Award winner (1960) 2× NL MVP (1958, 1959) 1967 Lou Gehrig Memorial Award Chicago Cubs #14 retired Major League Baseball All-Century Team Member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame Induction 1977 Vote 83.8% (first ballot) Ernest "Ernie" Banks (born January 31, 1931), nicknamed "Mr. Cub" ,[ 1] is a retired professional baseball player. He played as a shortstop and first baseman in Major League Baseball (MLB) for 19 seasons on the National League's (NL) Chicago Cubs team, from 1953 through 1971. Banks was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1977 and the Major League Baseball All-Century Team, in 1999. Contents [ hide ] 1 Early Life 2 Playing career 3 Coaching career 4 Honors 5 Other 5.1 Years led league by statistical category 6 See also 7 References 8 External links Early Life Banks was a letterman and standout in football, basketball, soccer and track at Booker T. Washington High School in Dallas, Texas , from which he graduated in 1950. [2 ] Playing career Retired number 14 at Wrigley Field Banks signed with the Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro American League in 1950 and broke into the Major Leagues in 1953 with the Chicago Cubs as their first black player. He played for the Cubs his entire career, starting at shortstop and moving to first base in 1962 .[ 1] Initially Banks' double play partner was Gene Baker , the second black player on the Cubs, and Banks' roommate on road trips. Thus making Banks and Baker, the first all black double play combination in major league history. When Steve Bilko would play first base, Cubs' announcer and home-town rooter Bert Wilson would refer to the Banks-Baker-Bilko double play combination as "Bingo to Bango to Bilko". This combination would not last quite as long as " Tinker to Evers to Chance ", but Banks would become a Cubs institution. Banks wore number 14 as a Cub, and is the first of only six Cubs players who have had their number retired by the organization. The number was originally worn by Guy Bush in 1932, the first year the Cubs wore numbers on their jerseys. Banks was known for his catchphrase of, "It's a beautiful day for a ballgame... Let's play two!", expressing his wish to play a doubleheader every day out of his pure love for the game of baseball, especially in his self-described "friendly confines of Wrigley Field ." In 1955 , he set the record for grand slams in a single season with five, a record that stood for over thirty years. [3 ] Banks won the National League Most Valuable Player Award twice, in 1958 and 1959 despite the fact that the Cubs were not pennant contenders during those seasons. He became the first shortstop in the history of the National League to win the MVP award in back to back seasons. [4 ] Jimmy Dykes reportedly remarked that, "Without him, the Cubs would finish in Albuquerque !" [5 ]... read more

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