⚾ Autographed/Signed Dennis Martínez Montreal Expos White Baseball Jersey JSA COA – Personally Signed by “El Presidente,” the Montreal Expos Right-Handed Pitcher Who Threw the 13th Perfect Game in Major League Baseball History on July 28, 1991, at Dodger Stadium, the First Nicaraguan-Born Pitcher to Reach the Pinnacle of Individual Pitching Achievement in the History of the Professional Game, Authenticated by JSA

⚾ There are moments in baseball that exist in the present tense no matter how much time passes – performances so complete and so singular that the act of remembering them does not produce a sense of distance but rather the same quality of presence that the live moment had, the way that truly remarkable athletic events do not age into history but continue to exist as immediate experiences for everyone who was there or who followed the game closely enough to understand what they were watching. July 28, 1991, at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles was one of those moments: a Sunday afternoon game between the Montreal Expos and the Los Angeles Dodgers, a 3-0 score through nine innings, twenty-seven batters up and twenty-seven batters retired, a perfect game that Dennis Martínez delivered at the age of 36 in what was already the second chapter of a professional career that had survived the kind of adversity that ending a career is supposed to produce.

⚾ Dennis Martínez was born May 14, 1954, in Granada, Nicaragua, and grew up playing baseball in a country that produces more than its per-capita share of professional players for the depth of talent the game draws on across Latin America. He signed with the Baltimore Orioles organization and reached the major league level in 1976, becoming the first Nicaraguan-born pitcher to play in the major leagues, a status that made him a national symbol in his home country in a way that the phrase “El Presidente” captures – a nickname that reflected not just his standing within his team and his profession but his meaning to the country that followed his career as a representative of what Nicaragua could produce in the sport that the region cares about most deeply. He won twenty games for the Orioles in 1979, was part of the Orioles' World Series championship team in that same year, and established himself as one of the most effective starting pitchers in the American League during the early years of his career.

🏟️ The middle of his career involved the kind of struggle that the public narrative of a pitching career rarely discusses until the pitcher has come through it: a period of difficulty with alcohol that affected his performance and his professional standing, and the sustained work of recovery that he committed to in the mid-1980s and that produced the second chapter of a career that the first chapter had not yet fully written. He was traded to the Montreal Expos in 1986, and what happened in the years that followed in Montreal was one of the most complete demonstrations in baseball history of what a mature, recovered, and fully committed professional pitcher can do when all of the talent that the statistics once confirmed is operating again without the interference that had disrupted it: he pitched with the command and the intelligence of a veteran who had learned everything the game could teach a pitcher and who was applying it without reservation. He won eighteen games for the Expos in 1991, the season that ended with the perfect game on July 28, and the Dodger Stadium crowd – there to watch their own team – stood and applauded for the visitor who had just done what only twelve pitchers before him in the entire history of professional baseball had done.

👕 The Montreal Expos white home jersey carries the identity of one of baseball's most fondly remembered franchises – the organization that played in Olympic Stadium and Jarry Park, that produced generations of great players and great moments in the history of Canadian baseball, and that represents a chapter of the sport that the collectors who remember it hold with a specific quality of affection. A signed Expos white jersey from Dennis Martínez – authenticated by JSA – connects the piece to the player who pitched the perfect game and to the franchise that gave him the platform to do it. Condition: NOS.

⚾ Dennis Martínez. Granada, Nicaragua. El Presidente. Montreal Expos. Right-Handed Pitcher. 1991 Perfect Game. July 28, 1991. Dodger Stadium. JSA COA. Hall of Fame Sports Memorabilia. Condition: NOS.