An influential man in the sports world in the early- to mid-1900s, Bill Stewart was an ice hockey referee and coach, and also an umpire in Major League Baseball. In his first season as head coach of the Chicago Black Hawks, he led the team to a Stanley Cup championship in 1938. Stewart worked 714 consecutive games from the time he entered the NL until September 1938, when he was stricken with appendicitis. He resigned from the NL umpiring staff in January 1955 and continued to work as a scout for the Cleveland Indians and Washington Senators. This autograph was obtained in person by a fan several years before Stewart's death in the early 1960s. Grades 9/10.