SALLY RIDE * Ride Estate Signed COA * Childhood DODGERS Drawing EX: Smithsonian

SALLY RIDE'S PERSONALLY OWNED CHILDHOOD DODGERS DRAWING – EXHIBITED AT THE SMITHSONIAN MUSEUM!

First American Woman in space DR. SALLY K. RIDE hand-drawn childhood DODGERS pencil and crayon fan art drawing exhibited at the Smithsonian Museum as part of the BASEBALL: America's Home Run exhibit.  It simply doesn't get much more All-American than an American Space hero and baseball – America's favorite pastime!  Young Sally Ride wasn't interested in conforming, she was interested in excelling – chasing big dreams regardless of what society thought was appropriate for a girl – a dream that would one day carry her all the way to space.

Ride adds a hand-drawn Dodgers logo and inscribes, "Wills" at upper left along with his player jersey number, "30".

While copies of Ride's fan art were exhibited at the Smithsonian, this is her ORIGINAL drawing.

Baseball first ignited 8-year old Sally's imagination after the Dodgers moved from Brooklyn to Ride's native Los Angeles in 1958 – and went on to win the 1959 World Series! Young Sally's first career aspiration was to succeed legendary Dodgers shortstop Maurice "Maury" Wills. It's said Sally's habit of memorizing and analyzing batting averages and pitching statistics bolstered an early interest in mathematics, which later led to her career as a physicist and NASA's first female space shuttle astronaut.

Ride later flew aboard the space shuttle Challenger as a crew member on her historic, six-day STS-7 mission as America's first female astronaut. Ride would go on to become the first American woman to fly twice, with a lifetime total of more than 343 hours spent in space. A two-time Challenger space shuttle astronaut, she would go on to serve on the Rogers Commission, the presidential commission investigating the Challenger disaster. Ride died of pancreatic cancer in 2012.

The Sally Ride childhood drawing is accompanied by a COPY of the COA from Mark Roesler, Chairman & CEO of CMG Worldwide, the Official Intellectual Property and Licensing Representative of the Sally Ride Estate certifying that this drawing (and others) were personally drawn and owned by Sally Ride. 

NOTE: This auction is only for the single Maury Wills Dodgers drawing only, as shown. The others are shown for reference only. 

Ride, the youngest American astronaut to have flown in space at just 32, was the first American woman in space, and only the third internationally after cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova and 1963 and Svetlana Savitskaya in 1982.

Condition is as shown. One of the very few personally-owned Ride items to ever come to market. 

Sold as is, as shown.