Well, I'm pretty excited to say the least. Steiner auctioned off the Cookie Lavagetto collection, and I was lucky enough to buy a lot of 17 signed vintage photos from Cookie's Dodger teammates. Many of the notable names were pulled out into separate listings such as Leo Durocher, Pee Wee Reese, Joe Medwick, etc.
I could tell that there were some more interesting names in the lot of 17 photos such as Pete Reiser, Dixie Walker, Johnny Allen, Freddie Fitzsimmons, Larry French, Dolph Camilli, Luke Hamlin, etc. but one photo caught my eye that I thought was Hugh Casey. The package arrived yesterday, and sure enough, it was! It also has a non-PC, historically relevant inscription to Cookie considering both played with Jackie Robinson:
"To my good friend who is the blackest man in baseball Hugh Casey"
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