Dick Schaap signed RONL Rawlings Official National League Baseball- JSA Hologram #EE41667 (ESPN/The Sports Reporters)

Dick Schaap became editor of SPORT magazine in 1973. It was then that he set in motion the inspiration for the eccentricities of Media Day at the Super Bowl. Opposing the grandiose and self-important nature of the National Football League's championship match, he hired two Los Angeles Rams players, Fred Dryer and Lance Rentzel, to cover Super Bowl IX. In 1988 he began hosting The Sports Reporters on ESPN cable television, which in later years often featured his son Jeremy as a correspondent. He also hosted Schaap One on One on ESPN Classic and a syndicated ESPN Radio program called The Sporting Life with Dick Schaap, in which he discussed the week's developments in sports with Jeremy. Dick Schaap has hand signed this RONL Rawlings Official National League Baseball (Coleman President). JSA Hologram #EE41667 and Certificate of Authenticity. Exact Ball as shown.