Historical Hockey Memorabilia Winter 2012
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/22/2012
Deceased baseball legends Mickey Mantle, Satchel Paige, James "Cool Papa" Bell, Lefty Grove and Ted Williams are featured among the 75 signed National Baseball Hall of Fame yellow postcards included in this collection. Long deceased Hall of Famers featured here include Earl Averill, Max Carey, Jocko Conlan, Stan Coveleski, Urban "Red" Faber, Burleigh Grimes, Judy Johnson, George "Highpockets" Kelly, Ted Lyons and Lloyd Waner, among others. A total of 55 deceased HOFers are included along with 20 living members of the HOF. These signed cards are housed in a binder that contains another 225 HOF postcards along with three mid-1990s HOF Induction Day postmarked envelopes and 30 modern Negro League picture postcards. Please see our website description for more details on this lot. The 75 signed HOF postcards include duplicates as indicated below.
Deceased (55): Appling, Barlick, Bell, Boudreau (2), Chandler (2), Dandridge (2), Drysdale, Feller (2, including one signed twice with signature on reverse dated “68”), Ferrell (2), Gehringer, Grove, Herman (3), Hunter (2), Kell (2), Killebrew, Lemon (2), Mantle (2, one HOF postcard and one Claridge card), Mathews, Mize (2), Paige, Reese, Roberts, Roush, Slaughter(2), Snider (2), Spahn (2), Stargell, Terry, Wilhelm and Williams; Living (20): Aaron, Aparicio, Bench, Berra, Brock, Doerr (2), Gibson, Irvin, Jenkins, Marichal, Mays, McCovey, Morgan, Musial, Palmer, Brooks Robinson (2), Frank Robinson (2).
National Baseball Hall of Fame commemorative induction day envelopes from 1993 (Reggie Jackson), 1994 (Carlton, Durocher & Rizzuto) and 1995 (Schmidt & Ashburn) have Cooperstown, N.Y. Induction Day Station postmarks.
The 225 unsigned HOF yellow postcards include the majority of the members of the Hall of Fame.
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