George Snuffy Stirnweiss Single Signed Baseball JSA COA The Only One Known
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Extraordinary George Snuffy Stirnweiss Single Signed 1940's Official American League Baseball. The only known Stirnweiss single signed baseball in existence.
He was an integral part of the 1940's New York Yankees winning 3 World Series. He also won the Al Batting Title in 1945. He died tragically in an accident at age 39. See below more details from Wiki.
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Upon his retirement from Major League Baseball in 1952, Stirnweiss ventured into the field of managing in the minor league ranks. He served as the manager for the Schenectady Blue Jays, the Philadelphia Phillies' Eastern League affiliate, in 1954, and then moved back into the Yankees’ organization and served as the manager for their affiliate in the same league, the Binghamton Triplets, in 1955. However, this was not his long-term goal, and he left baseball after the 1955 season in favor of a career in finance.
Moving into the banking industry, he worked as a solicitor for Federation Bank and Trust Company, but only for a short while. A father with six children, Stirnweiss fell ill and suffered a heart attack in June 1957, and he needed some time to recuperate from his health problems. He never returned to Federation Bank after he suffered his heart attack.
Not long after his recovery, he returned to work with Caldwell & Company in Manhattan. On September 15, 1958, Stirnweiss was on Train #3314 of the Central Railroad of New Jersey heading into Manhattan when, for reasons that have never been determined, the train drove straight through signals and flew off the open Newark Bay lift bridge and into the bay itself. Stirnweiss was on board one of the passenger cars that fell into Newark Bay, killing him and 47 other passengers. Stirnweiss was 39.
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