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Old 05-03-2023, 07:56 PM
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Originally Posted by LincolnVT View Post
Don’t want to hijack your thread, but it would be cool to see other signed baseballs by political figures.
I wonder what the William Howard Taft ball, which inaugurated the tradition of the presidential opening toss in 1910, would go for today? Or the Walter Johnson collection of signed baseballs by Presidents Taft, Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover from opening games in D.C. in which Johnson was a participant. Here's the incredible saga of that collection as I wrote it up for the Washington Post Magazine in 2004:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dy...2004Oct20.html
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