⚾ Vintage Autographed/Signed Jonny Gomes Rawlings Official Major League Baseball ROML PSA/DNA COA Auto – Hand-Signed on a Rawlings Official Major League Baseball by the Outfielder Who Delivered a Critical Home Run in the 2013 World Series as the Boston Red Sox Won Their Third Championship in Ten Years, With a PSA/DNA Certificate of Authenticity Confirming the Signature Is Genuine

⚾ The Official Rawlings Major League Baseball – the ROML, the specific ball the Commissioner's Office authorizes for use in every professional game – is the most direct physical artifact of baseball itself. Unlike a jersey or a photograph or a trading card, the baseball is the object that determines the outcome of every pitch, every swing, and every fielding play in every professional game ever played. When a player signs an official baseball, the signature goes on the object that has been in the hands of pitchers, catchers, umpires, and batters in real-world competition, and the connection between the autograph and the game is more literal than on almost any other surface a collector can choose. A PSA/DNA COA authenticates the signature on this Rawlings Official Major League Baseball as the genuine personal autograph of Jonny Gomes.

⚾ Jonny Gomes was born November 22, 1980, in Petaluma, California, and built a professional baseball career as an outfielder whose value to any clubhouse extended beyond the statistics his bat produced in the lineup. He played for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays and Rays, the Cincinnati Reds, the Oakland A's, the Boston Red Sox, and several other organizations across a professional career that stretched from 2003 through 2015 – the kind of career that forces teams to evaluate a player not just in the box score but in the dugout, in the batting cage before games, and in the culture of a clubhouse that is either building toward something or simply going through the motions of a long season. Gomes was the kind of player that managers and front offices recognize as carrying a type of value that baseball statistics capture incompletely and that veterans who have been in winning environments understand immediately.

⚾ The 2013 Boston Red Sox won the World Series, defeating the St. Louis Cardinals in six games, with David Ortiz earning the Series MVP for one of the most sustained individual October performances in recent baseball history. Gomes contributed a critical home run during the 2013 World Series – the kind of production from a veteran contributor that defined what the Red Sox had assembled in that clubhouse, a team built in part around the character and professionalism of players who understood what winning required in October and delivered when the situation demanded it. The 2013 championship was the third Red Sox title in ten years, closing at Fenway Park, and Gomes was one of the players who wore the ring that October produced.

✍️ PSA/DNA is the autograph authentication division of Professional Sports Authenticator, and a PSA/DNA COA confirming the signature on this baseball means that the authentication process applied by one of the industry's most recognized third-party services determined that the autograph is genuine – not a copy, not a printed facsimile, and not a signature applied by anyone other than the player whose name appears on it. The ROML designation on the ball confirms this is a Rawlings Official Major League Baseball, the same model used in professional play. Condition: NOS.

⚾ Jonny Gomes. Petaluma, California. Boston Red Sox. 2013 World Series Champion. Rawlings Official Major League Baseball ROML. PSA/DNA COA. Hall of Fame Sports Memorabilia. Condition: NOS.