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Old 09-11-2012, 05:26 AM
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I sold the Amos Rusie (kennel club) pictured above.
I sold a Pirates reunion ball too with Chesbro many years ago although there were several signed balls from that event and seems like the Chesbro on the one I sold was lighter. But heck that was probably 25 years ago.

GEORGE STACEY DAVIS is extremely tough Hall of Famer because he is one of those players that "went missing" after his career as a player ended in 1909. His death in 1940 was not discovered until many years after the fact. See below

Davis vanished into obscurity after his retirement. He worked in baseball as a coach, scout, and manager, while also working at a variety of other jobs that included stints as a professional bowler and an automobile salesman.
The circumstances of his death remained a mystery until baseball historian Lee Allen discovered its details through a campaign to track down historical baseball players, run in part in The Sporting News. He died in Philadelphia of paresis due to tertiary syphilis
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