Einar Gustafson Signed Baseball The Jimmy Fund Kid – COA JSA

Presented is a baseball signed by Einar Gustafuson who was the original Jimmy Fund kid. He signed the OAL (Budig) baseball in blue ballpoint on the sweet spot and added “Jimmy” as an inscription. The baseball is toned throughout from age.

Einar Gustafson, who plucked heartstrings as a 12-year-old cancer patient identified as Jimmy on a national radio program and then vanished for a half-century, only to reappear as a champion of what had become the Jimmy Fund.

In his final years, he became an active part-time spokesman for the Jimmy Fund, a children’s cancer foundation that was first the official charity of the Boston Braves, who moved to Milwaukee and then to Atlanta, and since 1953 of the Boston Red Sox. The Jimmy Fund has raised more than $150 million, underwritten some of the more significant work on chemotherapy for children and helped reduce the death rate of some childhood cancers — particularly leukemia — from 90 percent to 10 percent.

Authentication: JSA Basic Cert & Sticker

Einar Gustafson Signed Baseball