Incredible Mickey Owen & Tommy Henrich 1941 World Series Signed Glove Mitt JSA

Incredible Mickey Owen & Tommy Henrich 1941 World Series Signed Catchers Mitt. Owen inscribed “10/5/1941”.

The1941 World Seriesmatched theNew York Yankees against theBrooklyn Dodgers, with the Yankees winning in five games to capture their fifth title in six years, and their ninth overall.

The name “Subway Series” arose for a World Series played between two New York City teams. The series was punctuated by the Dodgers’Mickey Owen’sdropped third strike of a sharply breakingcurveball (a suspectedspitball) pitched byHugh Casey in the ninth inning of Game 4. The play led to a Yankees rally and brought them one win away from another championship.

The Yankees were back after a one-year hiatus, having won 13 of their last 14 Series games and 28 of their last 31.

This was the first Subway Series between the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Yankees (though the Yankees had already faced the crosstown New York Giants five times). These two teams would meet a total of seven times from 1941 to 1956 the Dodgers’ only victory coming in 1955 with an additional four matchups after the Dodgers left for Los Angeles, most recently in 1981.

In Game 4, the Yankees struck first in the top of the first onCharlie Keller’s RBI single with two on off ofKirby Higbe. In the fourth, they loaded the bases with no outs on a double, walk and single and two outs later,Johnny Sturm’s two-run single made it 30 Yankees and knock Higbe out of the game. In the bottom half,Atley Donald walked two with two outs before both runners scored onJimmy Wasdell’s double. Next inning,Pete Reiser’s two-run home run put the Dodgers up 43, but with two out, two strikes and no runners on base in the ninth, the Yankees rallied off ofHugh Casey. FirstTommy Henrich swung and missed, which would have ended the game, but Dodger catcherMickey Owen failed to catch the ball and Henrich reached first base. Owen recollected the incident:[6]

It wasn’t a strike. It was a low inside curve that I should have had. But I guess the ball struck my glove and by the time I got hold of it I couldn’t have thrown anybody out at first. It was an error.

Joe DiMaggio followed with a single andCharlie Keller hit a double to drive in Henrich and DiMaggio and take the lead.Bill Dickey would follow up with a walk and, along with Keller, score on aJoe Gordon double to make the final score 74.Johnny Murphy pitched two shutout innings to close the game as the Yankees were one win away from the championship.

Meyer Berger ofThe New York Timescovered the events in “Casey in the Box”, a poem derived from the 1888 classic “Casey at the Bat”.

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