⚾ Vintage Framed Brad Lidge & Carlos Ruiz Dual Autographed 2008 World Series Philadelphia Phillies 16x20 Baseball Photo JSA COA – The James Spence Authentication JSA COA Certified Dual Hand-Signed Framed 16x20 Baseball Photo of Brad Lidge and Carlos Ruiz Commemorating the 2008 World Series Championship, the Moment That Brought Philadelphia Its First Championship Since 1980

⚾ A perfect season. In 2008, Brad Lidge finished the regular season 41 for 41 in save opportunities – a number so unusual, so contrary to the expected distribution of outcomes across a major league season, that it registered as something beyond exceptional and approached the mathematical edge of impossible. He then went into the postseason and went 7 for 7. Forty-eight save opportunities across an entire major league season, regular season and postseason combined. Forty-eight saves. No blown saves. No failures. No cracks in the performance under the circumstances that produce the most blown saves in baseball – the late innings, the runners on base, the crowd's expectation and the batter's desperation. Carlos “Chooch” Ruiz was crouched behind the plate for all of it – the catcher who called the sequences, received every pitch, and gloved the final out when Brad Lidge struck out Eric Hinske in Game 5 of the 2008 World Series to deliver the Philadelphia Phillies their first World Series championship since 1980. This framed dual-signed 16x20 photograph, certified authentic by James Spence Authentication (JSA) with a Certificate of Authenticity, carries both signatures: the closer and the catcher, the two men at the center of that final out.

⚾ The city of Philadelphia had waited twenty-eight years between its 1980 World Series championship and the night of October 29, 2008 – twenty-eight years of good seasons and heartbreak and the particular patience that Philadelphia sports fans have never been accused of having but that the city demonstrated year after year across that wait. The 2008 Phillies arrived as a team that believed in itself, that won 92 games in the regular season, that moved through the NL East with the kind of steadiness that playoff races reward, and that carried into the postseason a bullpen capable of being led by a closer having the most statistically remarkable season any reliever had assembled in the modern era of the position. Brad Lidge, in his only season as a Philadelphia Phillie up to that point, was that closer. Carlos Ruiz caught every pitch of it. The framed 16x20 photograph, dual-signed and JSA-certified, is a display-ready piece of the most celebrated moment in that championship run. James Spence Authentication is one of the most trusted organizations in the memorabilia industry. Condition: NOS.

⚾ Brad Lidge. Carlos Ruiz. Chooch. Philadelphia Phillies. 2008 World Series. Perfect Season. 41 for 41. Game 5. JSA. James Spence Authentication. COA. Dual Signed. Framed. 16x20 Photo. Hall of Fame Sports Memorabilia. Condition: NOS.