1933 American League Champion Washington Senators Team Signed Baseball
picked this up.....signatures include:
Heinie Manush - OF - Sweet Spot
Ray Prim - RP - Sweet Spot - appeared in only 2 games in 1933
Joe Cronin - SS/Manager - Age 26 (26 year old rookie manager bests McCarthy, Ruth, Gehrig and the World Champ Yankees by 7 games to win the pennant, not bad)
Bob Boken - INF
Walter "Lefty" Stewart - SP
Alex McColl - RP
Cecil Travis - INF
Joe Kuhel - 1B
Ossie Bluege - 3B
General Crowder - SP - 24-15 record
Earl Whitehill - SP - 22-8 record
Moe Berg - C
Buddy Meyer - 2B
Dave Harris - OF
Ed Chapman - RP - only played 1 year 1933 - appeared in 6 career games
Luke Sewell - C
There are 4 others sigs I'm having a hard time making out.
The Chapman/Prim connection lead me to conclude this ball is from a game on either September 24 or October 1, 1933 as those were the only 2 games they both appeared on the roster at the same time. It might be nailed down to which of those 2 games by further examining the remaining signatures on this baseball and the rosters/boxscores of those 2 games.
On both of those dates the Senators played Lefty Grove, Jimmie Foxx and the Philadelphia Athletics.
Last edited by Shoeless Moe; 12-11-2013 at 12:14 AM.
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