Displayed is a Negro Leagues reunion multi-signed baseball, with 33 autos, including Hall of Famers James "Cool Papa" Bell and Leon Day, plus a number of famous stars. The offered ball is an Official National League Ball (White). Signing on the sweet spot were both "Cool Papa" Bell and Leon Day. Bell played for numerous teams in the Negro Leagues from 1922-46, including the three of the greatest teams, including Major League teams, in history: The Homestead Grays, Pittsburgh Crawfords, and St. Louis Stars, each of which won three championships with Bell. He was also a standout with the famous Kansas City Monarchs. Bell started his professional career as a left-handed pitcher, with a great knuckleball, and later he became an outstanding center fielder, with terrific speed, and a natural right-handed batter who learned to switch-hit. A wonderful bunter and an amazing stolen base artist, he still would pitch on occasion. He had an official batting average of .325 for his play in the Negro Leagues. His road roommate, the great Satchel Paige, once said that Bell was so fast that one time Bell turned out the room's overhead light from a switch on the wall, and he was in his bed before the light went out. With a brief delay in the light switch caused by a short, the story might have really been true, because Bell was so fast that he often advanced two bases from a teammate's bunt, and he sometimes scored from second base on an infield groundout. 

The other Hall of Famer signing the offered ball is the great Leon Day. An amazingly versatile player, Day was one of the Negro Leagues' best-ever pitchers, as well as a player who could play any position save catcher. Day was a superb fielder both as a second baseman and center fielder. He was a good hitter as well. Record keeping was often poor in the Negro Leagues, and while Day is officially credited by Baseball Reference with a lifetime pitching record of 50-22, some experts believe he may have won as many as 300 games in the Negro Leagues. Day did most of his playing for the Baltimore Black Sox, the Brooklyn/Newark Eagles, and the Baltimore Elite Giants. His best season was with the Newark Eagles in 1937, when he went 13-0 on the mound with a 3.02 ERA, and batted .320 with eight home runs. In some years, various publications rated Day's pitching as superior to that of Satchel Paige, but Day's quiet demeanor and lack of self-promotion hurt his recognition when compared to Paige, an outgoing self-promoter.

Others signing: Ted "Double-Duty" Radcliffe, a great all-around player who was both a pitcher and catcher. It is believed he earned his nickname by catching Satchel Paige in a 4-0 shutout in game one of a double-header and pitching a 6-0 shutout in the second game; right-handed pitcher Joe Black, one of a number of former Baltimore Elite Giants who, after Jackie Robinson broke the modern "Color Line," made it to the Major Leagues with the Brooklyn Dodgers. Black won the NL Rookie of the Year Award in 1952, as Jackie Robinson's roommate; "Wild Bill" Wright, "Preacher" Davis, William Sousa Bridgeforth, Edsall Walker, Ulysses Halliman, Andy Carter, Red Moore, Joseph Spencer, Lonnie Summers, Cowan "Bubba" Hyde, Lester Lockett, Tommy Sampson, Frazier Robinson, Dan Black, Jimme Armstead, Amos Watson, Charles L. Rivera, Charlie Biot, Henry Kimbro, and MORE. Most of the signatures are in blue ballpoint. The autographs average 7 or 8/10. The signed ball is in EXCELLENT condition, and its plethora of signatures of former players in the Negro Leagues, including Hall of Famers to stars, of both the Negro National League and the Negro American League, makes this a great remembrance for many players whose talent was Major League, but who were never given a chance, or like Joe Black, made the Major Leagues later than they should have.

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