Lot # 600: Brooklyn Dodgers Signed Letters Collection (8) w/Joe Medwick (HOF)

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Item was in Auction "Fall, 2017 Ringside and Premier Auction",
which ran from 11/9/2017 4:44 AM to
11/26/2017 10:12 AM



Outstanding collection of eight letters written and signed by various people affiliated with the Brooklyn Dodgers. Collection includes: 1) 1944 Ralph Branca: Letter to Branch Rickey agreeing to a salary of $400 per month with the Dodgers for 1944. Clean letter with some notations likely from office filing; 2) 1948 Rex Barney: Letter to Branch Rickey regarding his salary agreement for the season; 3) 1949 Don Newcombe: Letter to Branch Rickey requesting a salary advance to help pay for some real estate and furniture; 4) 1955 Carl Erskine: Letter to Buzzie Buvasi thanking him for a raise and catching up on offseason activities: 5) 1955 Ed Roebuck: Letter to Buzzie Bivasi requesting additional money; 6) 1967 Joe Medwick: Letter to Robert Fishel of General Insurors thanking him for an invitation and acknowledging he will participate in the 1967 Yankees' Old Timer's Day. Also includes three unsigned copies of letters from Fishel and Lee MacPhail first inviting Medwick to partcipate and then thanking him; 7) 1968 Ralph Branca: Letter to Lee MacPhail thanking him and confirming his participation in the 1968 Old Timer's Day and dinner at Toots Shor's; 8) 1983 Joe Black: Sour-reading letter to a Jack Marcus on Greyhound Corporation letterhead regarding an autograph request Marcus had made and not received. Black claims to have sent it immediately. Letter does contain paper remnants on the reverse where it was clearly mounted in Mr. Marcus' scrapbook. Signed letters from players provide interesting windows into the human side of the game and also the business side of the game. Many of these letters appear to have come from Dodgers files and offer clean signatures with outstanding provenance. Nonetheless each has been authenticated by James Spence Authentication.

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