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1967 Program Cover Signed by 36 Including 21 Baseball Hall of Fame Members.
Lot 159. 1967 Program Cover Signed by 36 Including 21 Baseball Hall of Fame Members. The autographs are on the front and back covers of the seating arrangement for the 1967 dinner of the New York Chapter of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America. Signatures of HoFers, many of them now deceased, are everywhere: Jackie Robinson, Joe DiMaggio, Dizzy Dean, Pie Traynor, Leo Durocher, Sam Rice, Luke Appling, Zack Wheat, Goose Goslin, Hank Greenberg, Larry MacPhail, Edd Roush, Joe Cronin, Frank Robinson, Lefty Grove, Robin Roberts, Yogi Berra (signed twice), Ford Frick, Ted Lyons, Enos Slaughter, Frank Frisch and Bob Feller. Other signers are Bill Virdon, Al Schacht, Vinegar B. Mizell, Harry Walker, Bobby Brown, Ralph Branca, W. D. Eckert, Allie Reynolds and Paul Kerr, HoF Museum president. ALSO, GIL MCDOUGALD AND MICHAEL BURK, YANKEES PRESIDENT FOM 1966-73. The signatures are generally strong, most nm and better and written atop printed portions of the seating chart-program. Excellent display and conversation piece! Authenticated by Kevin Keating. 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.
Winning Bid $429.
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