Don Newcombe Brooklyn Dodgers Signed "Baseball and Bat" 8x10 Photo (Autograph Memories)

This is a Don Newcombe Brooklyn Dodgers Signed "Baseball and Bat" 8x10 Photo (Autograph Memories).

Photo measures 8" x 10" in size and has been hand-signed by Don Newcombe of the Brooklyn Dodgers

The Don Newcombe autograph includes an official Autograph Memories COA for authenticity purposes.

Your signed photo comes in an 8x10 a top loader to protect your piece of memorabilia.

Donald Newcombe nicknamed "Newk", was a professional baseball pitcher in the Negro League and Major League Baseball who played for the Newark Eagles (1944?45), Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers (1949?1951 and 1954?58), Cincinnati (1958?1960), and Cleveland (1960).

Newcombe was the first pitcher to win the Rookie of the Year, Most Valuable Player, and Cy Young Awards during his career. This distinction would not be achieved again until 2011, when Detroit Tigers pitcher Justin Verlander, who was Rookie of the Year in 2006, won the Cy Young and MVP awards. In 1949, he became the first black pitcher to start a World Series game. In 1951, Newcombe was the first black pitcher to win 20 games in one season. In 1956, the inaugural year of the Cy Young Award, he became the first pitcher to win the National League MVP and the Cy Young in the same season.

Newcombe was an excellent hitting pitcher who compiled a career batting average of .271 with 15 home runs and was used as a pinch hitter, a rarity for pitchers.

Newcombe passed away on February 19, 2019 at the age of 92 in Los Angeles, California.

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