1941 Play Ball Ted Williams #14 PSA 7

Few baseball cards capture a more fascinating moment in American sports history than the 1941 Play Ball Ted Williams #14. That season, the 22-year-old Williams authored one of baseball's most legendary campaigns, batting .406 - a mark no qualified Major League hitter has reached since - while also leading the American League in home runs, walks, on-base percentage, and slugging percentage. Even more remarkable is what followed. Williams sacrificed nearly five full seasons during the prime of his career to serve as a military pilot in World War II and the Korean War, yet still returned to baseball and finished with a .344 lifetime average, 521 home runs, and the highest career on-base percentage in MLB history. That story gives this card significance far beyond its age. The 1941 Play Ball set was issued during the very season Williams cemented himself as "The Splendid Splinter," meaning collectors are looking at a card that existed while one of baseball's greatest individual seasons was actually unfolding. Surviving more than eight decades in PSA 7 condition is exceptional, particularly for a card tied so closely to a season that has become part of baseball folklore. It is difficult to tell the story of Ted Williams - or the history of hitting itself - without eventually arriving at 1941, as is represented here

Condition
PSA 7