Denton Cooley Signed Baseball Jsa - The entire story of first heart transplant

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Denton Cooley Signed Baseball Jsa - The entire story of first heart transplant. This baseball is a holy grail of medical history in Dr. Cooleys hand.
"12-1-09" Deton A Cooley MD Worlds first heart transplant april 1969. dedicated to treatment of diseases of the heart and blood vessels The Texas heart institute was created in 1968 for research and education, more then 100,000 Operations. In may 1967 we performed the first successful heart transplant in The US The donor was a teenage girl...we performed 19 more in the following months. The patint a 46 year old with advanced heart failure would not survive after attempted surgical correction, he lived fir 204 days, donor commited suicide, parents contacted us.
The words above entirely in the hand of the legendary surgeon, on many balls he would put a doodle of a heart...on this ball he handwrote a slice of History.... Jsa auction letter, serious offers only.