Auction Date:2011 Dec 07 @ 18:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
First baseman for Detroit and Boston who turned the seventh unassisted triple play in baseball history, and the first to end a game. LS, two pages, 8.5 x 11, New York Yankees, Inc. letterhead, March 31, 1953. Letter to Yankee General Manager George Weiss reporting on spring activities of the Athletics and Tigers. In part: “In talked with Manager Fred Hutchinson and Walter [Spike] Briggs…Charlie Gehringer is in Detroit…Hutchinson is ready to let the player go for center fielder Noren and a young pitcher…Spike Briggs also talked very freely and said he felt trading Houtteman would be very dangerous at this time…had to consider the fans, their reaction trading the young pitcher…Spike too was rather upset by the fact many of the top writers following teams in Florida felt his team was one of the weakest in the American League…apparently he didn’t like what they had been writing about his team with its fine spring record. Frankly, the way Briggs talked to me I think the young President might be sold on the fact he may have a rather good entry in the American league pennant race…In talking with both Hutchinson and Gehringer on my visits, I am certain they both feel the club needs bolstering in many spots.” In fine condition, with staple hole to top left and some mild toning. Superior baseball content.
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