GENE GARBER...VINTAGE HAND SIGNED AUTOGRAPH/ IMAGE STOPPING ROSE RECORD AT 44...

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GENE GARBER...1947...PA....EFFECTIVE RELEIF PICTURE IN THE MAJOR FOR 20 YEARS....HOWEVER  HIS CLAIM TO FAME.....WAS TO STRIKE OUT PETE ROSE....GOING FOR HIS 44 STRAIGHT GAME WITH A HIT.....BRINGING THIS STREAK TO AN END....FOR ONE OF THE GREATEST HITTERS THE GAME HAS EVER KNOWN.....VINTAGE HAND SIGNED AUTOGRAPH LAID INTO AN 8X10 IMAGE OF GARBER STRIKING OUT ROSE....IN 1978...IN THESE EARLY DAYS THE CATCHER WAS DALE MURPHY HALL OF FAME OUTFIELDER.....NUMBER 11 TO NUMBER 3....I WAS AT THE GAME....AND AN ATLANTA FAN....I WAS DISAPPOINTED THAT ROSE DID NOT HIT HIS HIT.....