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8 Brooklyn Dodgers Yearbooks, 1947, 1949, 1950, 1952-54, 1956 and 1957.
Lot 198. 8 Brooklyn Dodgers Yearbooks, 1947, 1949, 1950, 1952-54, 1956 and 1957. Proceeds from the sale of this lot will benefit the Society for American Baseball Research, a non-profit membership organization open to all that fosters the research, preservation, and dissemination of the history and record of baseball. Generally, these examples are collector-reader copies. The 1947 yearbook, Baseball’s Beloved Bums by Joe Hasel, has extensive pencil writing on the covers and slightly more than one-half of the pages. Fortunately, an inserted page noting Jackie Robinson’s addition to the team is free of writing. The copy is complete, and absent the writing, the pages are ex. The 1949 edition has a vg appearance, but writing on almost every page, including Robinson’s. The 1950 edition, fourth printing, escaped the prolific pencilist and has a vg Willard Mullin cover with ex pages. The pencil, and an occasional pen, returned for 1952; otherwise, vg. The 1953 issue is vg-ex with a small “B” on the cover, 1954 poor (and we mean it!) with many pages cut, 1956 ex with an autograph of broadcaster Al Helfer in pencil (large gem mint 10) on the front cover and 1957 ex-m, a very nice issue with a small crease in the upper right corner. (Helfer called the Dodgers’ final game in Brooklyn and introduced the players to the crowd.) These eight issues are accompanied by The Dodgers 1941, which has the characteristics of a yearbook, p-f, complete, water stained, some pages torn. The issues for 1950, 1953, 1956 and 1957 are very collectible and well worth our
Winning Bid $198.
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