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Vintage Lathe Bat Nicely Signed by 21 Negro Leaguers – Radcliffe, Jethroe, Fields, Etc.
Lot 2. Vintage Lathe Bat Nicely Signed by 21 Negro Leaguers – Radcliffe, Jethroe, Fields, Etc. This 33” bat still has the nubs on the ends. More importantly, it displays the nm-m 8 and better autographs of Wilmer Fields, Leroy Toots Ferrell, Stanley Glenn, Cecil Kaiser, Jim Zapp, Max Manning, Jim Wilkes, Curly Williams, Gene Benson, Art “Superman” Pennington, Sam Jethroe, Mahlon Duckett, Emilio Navarro, Double Duty Radcliffe, Wilmer Harris, Bill (Ready) Cash, James Cohen, Willie Pope, Ernest Burke and Pee Wee Jenkins. Jethroe, who died in 2001, was the 1950 N.L. Rookie of the Year. He was the Boston Braves’ first black player. Radcliffe is one of the best Negro Leaguers not in the Hall of Fame. In a playing career that began in 1928 and ended in the early 1950s, he may have recorded as many as 4,000 hits, 400 home run, 500 wins and 4,000 strikeouts. In a 1952 poll of Negro Leagues experts by the “Pittsburgh Courier,” he ranked fifth all-time among catchers in the Negro Leagues, and seventeenth among pitchers. His signature is large as “Double Duty Radclif” (died 2005) because he ran out of space at the end of the bat. Fields (d. 2004) demonstrated major league talent while pitching in the Negro Leagues and the minors. Kevin Keating authenticated the autographs.
Winning Bid $115.
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