SUPER RARE JOE LOUIS SIGNED SOFTBALL. HE FORMED, OWNED THE BROWN BOMBERS PSA

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RARE JOE LOUIS SIGNED SOFTBALL.
Vintage softball, bearing autograph of boxing legend Joe Louis. In the mid-1930s, Louis -- already well into his career as a boxer -- formed the Brown Bombers, a softball team, for which he played first base. (One of his teammates noted that "as a baseball player, Joe makes a great prizefighter.") But his love for the diamond led him to dedicate quite a lot of time and money to the Bombers. Eventually the team dissolved, as it was a money pit from the start. It was widely believed that the whole point of forming the team in the first place was so Louis could help some of his less fortunate friends through some of the tough Depression years. This remarkable piece bears a signature consistent with the way he signed in the 1930s to early 1940s.  authentic. JSA AUTHENTICATION
Louis himself was so generous and often naive in his generosity, that he never saved his money and spent the last half of his life trying to pay back money he owed from the first half. He gave away money to poor kids and friends from his youth and hangers on.He started a Detroit softball team, the Brown Bombers, and bought them uniforms and a team travel bus. He even repaid the city of Detroit the 0 his family received in welfare checks after his stepfather was injured in an auto accident. He bought uniforms for an entire graduating class of army officers from Jackie Robinson’s officer training class. He bought businesses for friends, and invested in friends’ schemes. The more he earned the more he gave away. In 1940, the Detroit News reported that Louis was riding on his newly purchased farm near Utica. An elderly Indian lived in a shack on the property and was worried that Louis would evict him. Louis rode his horse over and told him not to worry, but to move over to the other side of the hill where there was a frame house that would be more comfortable for winter.
Louis bought the farm in Utica for his horses. He had started riding at Washington Park in Chicago and rode every day there. He collected show horses and competed in riding shows