⚾ Autographed/Signed Darryl Strawberry New York Mets Blue Baseball Jersey PSA/DNA COA — The Authenticated Signature of the Most Electrifying Power Hitter to Wear the Mets Blue Through the 1980s, the Man Who Made Shea Stadium Rise to Its Feet from His First Day in the Major Leagues

⚾ The 1983 New York Mets were not a playoff team. They were a club that had been rebuilding through several losing seasons and had not won a World Series since their 1969 championship. But on April 5, 1983, they put a 21-year-old outfielder from Los Angeles into left field at Shea Stadium and the Mets' fan base immediately understood that something significant had arrived. Darryl Strawberry went on to win the National League Rookie of the Year award that season and in doing so announced the beginning of a run in Queens that would culminate in the most celebrated championship in Mets history.

⚾ His physical gifts were unlike anything the franchise had seen in a generation: 6-foot-6, with a swing that generated extraordinary leverage, a left-to-right sweep of the bat that produced towering fly balls in quantities that only a handful of players in the National League could approach. He hit 39 home runs in 1987, 29 in 1988, 29 in 1989, matching production with the national platform that New York provides its most celebrated athletes — eight All-Star selections across his Mets career, a presence in the 1986 World Series championship team that included Keith Hernandez, Gary Carter, and one of the most dramatic comeback finishes in Series history. He was the power symbol at the heart of those Mets teams, the player the other team's pitching staff most wanted to neutralize and most often could not.

⚾ The New York Mets blue jersey is the uniform that the collector community associates most strongly with the Strawberry legacy — the years in Queens, the years the franchise built around his bat, the years that produced the singular championship of the team's second great era. The signature on this jersey is a direct connection to those years and to the player who made them possible.

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⚾🏆 Darryl Strawberry. New York Mets. Blue Baseball Jersey. PSA/DNA COA. Autographed. Hall of Fame Sports Memorabilia. Condition: NOS.