February 2019 Sports Card & Memorabilia Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/24/2019
Rare, High-Grade 1961 Nu-Card #143 Ernie Davis (SGC 9 MINT) rookie card! Davis won the Heisman Trophy in 1961 and was its first African-American recipient. Davis played college football for Syracuse University and was the first pick in the 1962 NFL Draft. Davis was diagnosed with leukemia in the summer of 1962, and died less than a year later at age 23, without ever playing in a professional game. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1979, and was the subject of the 2008 film "The Express", based on the non-fiction book Ernie Davis: The Elmira Express, by Robert C. Gallagher.
Condition: Mint
1961 Nu-Card #143 Ernie Davis (SGC 9 MINT) High-Grade Rookie Card
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