I was pleasantly surprised when I received a used copy of the 1941 Who's Who and found that it may have belonged to Pirates ace Max Butcher who marked the cover "Prop of Max Butcher." I looked at versions of Butcher's signature and it looks pretty good to my untrained eye. Max must have studied up on the hitters in his Who's Who because he recovered from a 17 loss 1940 and won a career-high 17 games in '41. Unfortunately he spent his career with really bad teams and died of alcohol-related liver problems in 1957 at the too-young age of 46.
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