Bonus Autographs

[jerseygary]

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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[Bigdaddy]

I recently won a group of 3 used NY Yankees postcards on the 'Bay. There was no mention of any autographs on the three, but you could see from the photos that the Joe Collins had signature on the back.

Once I got them in hand, I could tell that the Collins was authentic, and also found that the Rizutto was addressed in his hand. No autograph, but the address was clearly written by him as it has his telltale letter formation for the two 'B's in 'Brown' and 'Bronx' that he uses for the 'P's and 'R's in his name. I could not determine if the addresses on the Bauer and Collins were in their hand or not.