November 2016 Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 11/19/2016
Offered are 7 letters to a collector responding to their questions. Great content from deceased Baseball HOFers. Includes:
• Jamie Cool Papa Bell – “Martin Dihigo was a Cuban. He was one of the greatest ballplayers of all times Black or White”
• Waite Hoyt – “I think Miller Huggins was the best manager”
• Monte Irvin – “The Negro Leagues were of Triple A caliber when I played. Josh Gibson, Willie Foster, Ray Dandridge, and others could have made the transformation immediately”
• Walter Buck Leonard – “Being inducted into the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY in August 1972” – in response to his greatest thrill
• Freddie Lindstrom – “I was as scared as a rabbit when it hears the banging of a pack of hound dogs” – in response to being asked about how he felt during his first World Series
• Joe McCarthy – “I have been out of the game too long” in response to being asked about the differences in the game today
• Joe Sewell – “Ty Cobb was my idol when I was a boy and I will never forget the day he walked on the filed in Cleveland and to think there I was playing against him in the Major Leagues” – in response to being asked who his boyhood idol was
A fine addition to any collection
Letter of Authenticity from Richard Albersheim.