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A GERALD FORD BASEBALL SIGNED WITH THE OATH OF OFFICE. An Official National League baseball, inscribed and signed by Gerald Ford ("I, Gerald Rudolph Ford") with the Oath of Office dated "The White House, August 9, 1974," image 1
A GERALD FORD BASEBALL SIGNED WITH THE OATH OF OFFICE. An Official National League baseball, inscribed and signed by Gerald Ford ("I, Gerald Rudolph Ford") with the Oath of Office dated "The White House, August 9, 1974," image 2
A GERALD FORD BASEBALL SIGNED WITH THE OATH OF OFFICE. An Official National League baseball, inscribed and signed by Gerald Ford ("I, Gerald Rudolph Ford") with the Oath of Office dated "The White House, August 9, 1974," image 3
A GERALD FORD BASEBALL SIGNED WITH THE OATH OF OFFICE. An Official National League baseball, inscribed and signed by Gerald Ford ("I, Gerald Rudolph Ford") with the Oath of Office dated "The White House, August 9, 1974," image 4
A GERALD FORD BASEBALL SIGNED WITH THE OATH OF OFFICE. An Official National League baseball, inscribed and signed by Gerald Ford ("I, Gerald Rudolph Ford") with the Oath of Office dated "The White House, August 9, 1974," image 5
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A GERALD FORD BASEBALL SIGNED WITH THE OATH OF OFFICE.
An Official National League baseball, inscribed and signed by Gerald Ford ("I, Gerald Rudolph Ford") with the Oath of Office dated "The White House, August 9, 1974,"

14 October 2020, 13:00 EDT
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A GERALD FORD BASEBALL SIGNED WITH THE OATH OF OFFICE.

An Official National League baseball, inscribed and signed by Gerald Ford ("I, Gerald Rudolph Ford") with the Oath of Office dated "The White House, August 9, 1974," [but accomplished later, c.1995-1999,] a Rawlings Leonard S. Coleman baseball, 5 oz, 9 inches circumference.
Provenance: Bobby Winkles, manager of the California Angels and Oakland Athletics in the early 1970s (with signed letter describing the origins of the ball).

A RARE BALL INSCRIBED AND SIGNED WITH PRESIDENT GERALD FORD'S OATH OF OFFICE IN FULL. Wtih provenance description from ex-Major League manager Bobby Winkles attesting to his friendship with Ford in Southern California and his odd request to write out his Oath of Office in the mid-1990s, which he did.

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