Pop Gates Autographs

William Penn "Pop" Gates (August 30, 1917 – December 1, 1999) was an American professional basketball player. Considered one of the top players of his day, he was among the first African American players signed to the National Basketball League, which through merger became today's National Basketball Association.
Gates was born in Decatur, Alabama and attended high school in New York City. During high school studies he earned All-Conference honors in both 1937 and 1938 and made the All-City first team in 1938, as well as won three All-City titles with YMCA teams. Some later newspaper publications claimed that Gates graduated from Clark College (now Clark Atlanta University), but in fact his professional basketball career started right after graduating from Franklin High School.
Gates started his professional basketball career with the famed New York Renaissance, beginning in 1938–39. Gates is one of the few athletes who went directly from a high school championship team (Benjamin Franklin, New York, 1938) to a world professional champion (New York Rens, 1939): in his first season with the Rens, the team won the 1939 World Professional Basketball Tournament in Chicago, the inaugural such event. Gates was the Rens' leading scorer in the championship game, won over the Oshkosh All Stars of the National Basketball League (NBL), a precursor to the NBA. Gates would play in all 10 of the editions of that tournament, both on all-African-American and racially integrated teams. He would twice be named to the World Professional Basketball Tournament First Team, including in 1943, when he led the Washington Bears, a team comprised mostly of former Rens, to a second WPBT championship.
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Traded items with a signature of Pop Gates

The most expensive item with a signature of Pop Gates (2010 Razor Sports Icons Cut Signature Edition 1/1 Pop Gates Auto 1m8) was sold in December 2025 for $504.59 while the cheapest item (Harlem Renaissance Pop Gates Hand Signed 8 X 10 HOF) found a new owner for $0.99 in May 2017. The month with the most items sold (2) was May 2009 with an average selling price of $9.19 for an autographed item of Pop Gates. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in June 2016 with $110.50 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $0.99 was May 2017. In average, an autographed item from Pop Gates is worth $19.99.

Most recently, these items with a signature of Pop Gates were sold on eBay - click here for more items.

Picture	Item Title	Price	Store
	1961 Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame FDC WILLIAM "POP" GATES Autograph	$25.00
	1992-93 Center Court #6 Pop Gates Beckett Authentic Signed Auto 10 *4644	$49.00
	1992-93 Center Court Hall of Fame William Pop Gates #6 Autographed Postcard	$49.99
	1992/93 Center Court #6 Pop Gates Beckett Authentic Signed Auto 10 *9021	$39.00
	2016 Leaf Best of Basketball Cut Signature Pop Gates (#10/10)	$6.50
	Pop Gates 1992 Center Court Postcard Signed Autograph AUTO PSA/DNA Globe Trotter	$13.50
	Pop Gates Gem Mint 10 PSA DNA Signed 1992 Center Court Autograph	$97.25
	Pop Gates Gem Mint 10 PSA DNA Signed 1992 Center Court Autograph	$96.95
	Pop Gates Signed Postcard PSA/DNA Certified Authentic *9713	$49.00
	Ron Lewis Center Court HOF Guard William "Pop"Gates Autographed LTD ED Post Card	$49.94
	WILLIAM "POP" GATES signed 8x10 photo (Globetrotters - autograph) HOF	$45.49
	WILLIAM "POP" GATES signed 8x10 photo (Globetrotters - autograph) HOF!	$45.49
	William Pop Gates NBA Hall Of Fame Autographed Signed Postcard AMCo COA 31204	$35.98
	William Pop Gates Signed Autographed Ron Lewis HOF Postcard Beckett BAS Cert	$59.95
	William Pop Gates Signed Birthplace of Basketball FDI Cachet JSA Authenticated	$54.99