FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Date of Release: June 23, 2015 Superheroes – Real and Imagined – Lead Hake’s July 14-16 Pop Culture, Historical & Sports Auction Featured: Book MLK inscribed to Chief Justice Earl Warren, rarities from Franco Toscanini Superman...
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Date of Release: June 23, 2015 Superheroes – Real and Imagined – Lead Hake’s July 14-16 Pop Culture, Historical & Sports Auction Featured: Book MLK inscribed to Chief Justice Earl Warren, rarities from Franco Toscanini Superman collection, personal archive of ‘best baseball player of all time’ YORK, PA – Superheroes aren’t always the product of fantasy. Sometimes they’re ordinary people who’ve gone on to achieve superhuman goals – like the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and baseball legend Martin Dihigo, the only man ever to be inducted in the Baseball Halls of Fame in the United States, Mexico, Cuba, the Dominican Republic and Venezuela. Backed by their rich and unique legacies, Dihigo and King unquestionably deserve the title of “superhero” and the right to stand alongside Superman in Hake’s Auction #215, which closes for bidding July 14-16. The centerpiece among the many important civil rights mementos entered in the 2,600-lot sale is a 1958 first edition
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