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Lot # 375: 1930s-40s Baseball Letters with Amazing Letterhead (35)

Starting Bid: $300.00

Bids: 5 (Bid History)

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Item was in Auction "Fall 2016",
which ran from 9/21/2016 12:00 AM to
10/28/2016 9:00 PM



A superb collection from the files of the Detroit Tigers, these letters are mostly addressed to Mickey Cochrane or Charles Nain. There's great baseball content on each, many regarding special games, players and several from the 1944 World Series. Amazing letterhead is in fullest color on pretty much all, most are 1930s, the rest 1940s with important signees in parentheses: Nine 1935-37 Cincinnati Reds (seven Gabe Paul, two Frank Lane), 1951 Boston Braves w/Hank Greenberg content (Jack Zeller), three St. Louis Browns (two William DeWitt), Chicago Cubs 1935, two Detroit Tigers to Mickey Cochrane, Toledo Mud Hens (Fred Haney), Beaumont Exporters (Zeller), two Philadelphia A’s (both Connie Mack secretarial), Pittsburgh Pirates roe. 1944 WS tix (Benwanger), Philadelphia Phillies & Portsmouth Cubs roe. 1944 WS tix (2), International League (Frank Shaughnessy), Texas League (Alvin Gardner), 1944 St. Louis Cardinals r.e. WS (Sam Breadon), two 1937 Boston Bees (Bob Quinn), three 1937 Atlanta Crackers (Earl Mann), 1937 Little Rock (racist), Indianapolis Indians (Owen Bush), Kellogg’s Cereals r.e. stadium wall advertising, American League (Will Harridge secretarial). 35 letters in all.

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