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Posted By: Rhys

Jodi

I was reading once in a book (Maybe the Seymour book but it escapes me now) that a team mate of King Kelly was relating that it was hard for Kelly to get to the ballpark in his prime because of so many children surrounding him for his autograph. Obviously the complete lack of Baseball autograph collections (for the sake of the signatures themselves) do not exist from this time period, but I have always wondered if there really are King Kelly autographs out there in random autograph books from the 1880's or if the team mate was mistaken as to the childrens intentions since he was relating the story so many years after the events took place.

The Hotel Ledger pages from the halper Estate and the Child autograph book from the Clarkson estate that Hunts sold several years ago are the closest things I can think of, but each of these were collected for a purpose other than just to accumulate baseball autographs.

Do you remember reading that about kelly?

Rhys