1987 Twins Team-Signed Baseball World Series Champs 18 Sigs. Incl. Kirby Puckett – COA JSA

Presented is a OAL (Brown) baseball autographed by members of the 1987 Minnesota Twins. There are 18 signers in blue or black pen (“9”). Signers include: Kirby Puckett; Mark Portugal; Randy Bush; Les Straker; Frank Viola; Mike Smithson; Joe Klink; Tony Oliva; Chris Pittaro; Billy Beane; Steve Lombardozzi; Roy Smalley and many others. The baseball itself shows toning, scuffs, soiling throughout from age and use.

The 1987 Minnesota Twins won the World Series for the first time since moving from Washington in 1961, the second time that the franchise won the World Series (the Washington Senators won it in 1924). Having won only 85 games during the 1987 regular season, they won the World Series with the then-fewest regular season wins since Major League Baseball expanded to a 162-game season in 1961, and the fewest of any team since the 1889 New York Giants (excluding the strike-shortened 1981 and the COVID-19 pandemic-shortened 2020 seasons and later surpassed by the 2006 St. Louis Cardinals who won 83 games that season). They also became the first team to win the World Series despite being outscored by their opponents in the regular season, having scored 786 runs and allowed 806.

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1987 Twins Team-Signed Baseball World Series Champs