January pick-ups...

[Scott Garner]

Originally Posted by CooperstownExpert

Here's the latest addition...

Super excited any time to add a piece with meaningful content. Just finished adding it to the pages of Connie Mack and Ty Cobb on my website.

The Mack page has quite a few letters with neat content, including one of my favorite pieces - the letter to Howard Ehmke, hero of the '29 World Series. The surprise starter for Game 1, Ehmke made baseball history when he set the Fall Classic record for Ks. The move to start him was called by Bill James, "the most brilliant managerial stratagem in the history of baseball”. There's a story on the site about it here.

Jim,
That's a great letter with outstanding content about Cobb from one of the greatest managerial minds in the game.

[tha-rock]

A: "Ty Cobb was really fast"

B: "How fast was he?"

A: "Cobb was so fast that when he was stealing second base, some teams would throw the ball to third base."


That letter is the proof.

[Scott Garner]

Originally Posted by tha-rock

A: "Ty Cobb was really fast"

B: "How fast was he?"

A: "Cobb was so fast that when he was stealing second base, some teams would throw the ball to third base."


That letter is the proof.

Yuuuup!

[bnorth]

Picked up these 3 Wade Boggs rookies. Nice to have them all signed in the same color. Far from an expert but my guess is there were signed in 1984.