180+ American League Signatures From 1940 Season - Looking To Sell 196 Piece Lot

[btcarfagno]

UPDATE - Am looking to sell entire 196 piece lot. Breakdown value is tremendous, full of Hall of Famers such as Al Simmons, Joe DiMaggio and Connie Mack, as well as early deaths like Emil Bildilli, art Fletcher and Jake Powell.

Very interesting piece. The story behind it is that a schoolboy so impressed his teacher with a 120+ page report on the players in the American League that she gave it to Del Baker, manager of the Tigers, who had just about every player and coach in the American League at that time sign it for him.

The schoolboy did a paragraph write up on each player and in most instances the player has signed by his own write up. For the players/coaches that did not have a write up, they signed a single page at the end of their team's write ups. I am selling the "cuts" individually and the sheets of autographs I am keeping together. Some of the cuts will have the entire write up with them, others will have part of the write up until it went to the next page, and a few barely any of the write up as the write up is on the next page. No price difference, although I think the write up being with the autograph does add something to it. Pages are approximately 8x10 and each cut will be anywhere from half a page to the smallest at 2x8 or so. Most are in the 4x8-3x8 range.

Here are the available players:

New York Yankees

Frank Crosetti $10
Joe Gordon $SOLD
Babe Dahlgren $SOLD
Bill Dickey (has tape over it, just 1x8) $10
Joe Dimaggio $175
Atley Donald $10
Lefty Gomez $28
Bump Hadley $28
Tommy Henrich $10
Oral Hildebrand $15
Charlie Keller $15
Johnny Murphy $28 died 1970
Monte Pearson $24
Red Rolfe $33 died 1969
Red Ruffing $24
Buddy Rosar $10
Marius Russo $7
George Selkirk $10
Steve Sundra $95 died 1952
Jake Powell $85 died 1948
Marv Breuer $10
Spud Chandler $10

"Other Yankees" page: Bill Knickerbocker (died 1963), Art Jorgens, Earle Combs, Arthur Fletcher (died 1950) $235

Boston Red Sox

Jim Bagby Jr $7
Tom Carey $55 died 1970
Roger Cramer $10
Joe Cronin $20 (just 1x8)
Gene Desautles $7
Emerson Dickman $10
Bobby Doerr $10
Lou Finney $55 died 1966
Jimmie Foxx $300
Denny Galehouse $7
Lefty Grove $35 (just 1x8)
Joe Heving $25 died 1970
Leo Nonnenkamp $7
Fritz Ostermueller $55 died 1957
Marv Owen $7
Johnny Peacock $15
Jim Tabor $60 died 1953
Dom Dimaggio $SOLD
Jack Wilson $7

"Other Red Sox" page: Dom Dimaggio, Tom Daly (died 1946), Stan Spence, Mickey Harris (died 1971), Herb Hash, Frank Shellenback (1919 White Sox), Joe Glenn $95

Cleveland Indians

Johnny Allen $50 died 1959
Beau Bell $10
Lou Boudreau $10
Ben Chapman $10
Joe Dobson $7
Harry Eisenstat $7
Bob Feller $13
Sammy Hale $18 died 1974
Mel Harder $7
Jeff Heath $18 died 1975
Rollie Hemsley $SOLD died 1972
Ken Keltner $7
Roy Mack $65 died 1960
Al Milnar $7
Frank Pytlak $15
Hal Trosky $15

"Other Indians" page: Soup Campbell, Mike Naymick, Nate Andrews, Luke Sewell, Oscar Melillo (died 1963), Odell Hale, Johnny Bassler, JOhnny Humphries (died 1965), Bill Zuber, Al Smith, Oscar Vitt (died 1963), Russ Peters $110

Chicago White Sox

Pete Appleton $SOLD died 1974
Luke Appling $SOLD
Clint Brown $60 died 1955
Bill Dietrich $10
Jack Hayes $10
Jack Knott $10
Eric McNair $65 died 1949
John Rigney $10
Larry Rosenthal $7
Mike Kreevich $7
Joe Kuhel $7
Thornton Lee $7
Ted Lyons $18
Julius Solters $23 died 1975
Mike Tresh $23 died 1966
Taft Wright $10
Jimmie Dykes $27 died 1976

"Other White Sox" page: Ken Silvestri, Monty Stratton, Ed Weiland (died 1971), Bob Kennedy, Bill White, Mule Haas (died 1974), Skeeter Webb, Muddy Ruel (died 1963) $75

Detroit Tigers

Earl Averill $17
Buck Newsom $40 died 1962
Dick Bartell $7
Al Benton $60 died 1968
Tom Bridges $60 died 1968
Bruce Campbell $7
Frank Croucher $15
Pete Fox $50 died 1966
Charlie Gehringer $17
Hank Greenberg $75
Pinky Higgins $37 died 1969
Barney McCosky $7
Hap McKain $10
Hal Newhouser $17
Schoolboy Rowe $45 died 1961
Billy Sullivan Jr $10
Birdie Tebbetts $10
Dizzy Trout $27 died 1972
Rudy York $30 died 1970

"Other Tigers" page: Merv Shea (died 1953), Bing Miller (died 1966), Red Kress (died 1966), Frank Metha (died 1975...TOUGH), John Gorsica, Tom Seats, Lynn Nelson (died 1955) $160








Tom C

[dgo71]

Could I see a scan of the Joe Gordon please?

[btcarfagno]

This is the whole page. I would be cutting it down to just the Gordon part (botton 1/3 of page).

Tom C

[UnVme7]

Do you autograph collectors normally cut these up?

[btcarfagno]

I'm thinking that lumping autograph collectors together in terms of action or thought is not such a good idea. To your question, it is much like asking someone who just purchased a mid 1950's Topps baseball set if card collectors always break them apart. It would depend on the person. If bought for resale then often selling off the pieces nets more money for the patient seller. Why do you ask?

Tom C

[UnVme7]

Originally Posted by btcarfagno

I'm thinking that lumping autograph collectors together in terms of action or thought is not such a good idea. To your question, it is much like asking someone who just purchased a mid 1950's Topps baseball set if card collectors always break them apart. It would depend on the person. If bought for resale then often selling off the pieces nets more money for the patient seller. Why do you ask?

Tom C

Just curious. Didn't know if they were worth more one way or the other. My apologies. Carry on..

[btcarfagno]

Originally Posted by UnVme7

Just curious. Didn't know if they were worth more one way or the other. My apologies. Carry on..

Ah. Gotcha. Sorry. It depends on the piece. Some are tough to cut because the signatures are very close together. Some are really historic items that are worth more whole. But autograph albums are generally worth more cut up. At least page by page if not signature by signature.

Tom C

[GrayGhost]

Really cool.

[btcarfagno]

Bump for price reductions. Hopefully I get a chance to add the final 3 teams in a few days.

Tom C

[btcarfagno]

All 196 autographs as one lot. Asking $2,300 delivered. Crazy cheap for what is in the lot.

Tom C

[btcarfagno]

All 196 autographs as one lot. Asking $2,300 delivered. Crazy cheap for what is in the lot.

Tom C