Over the coming auctions Love of the Game will be featuring an extensive collection of sports and Americana autographs obtained by a long-time TTM collector from New England. Many of the signatures appear on personalized postcards that were signed and mailed in the late 1940s and early 1950s beautiful vintage signatures with vintage postmarks from some of the game's stars. Our favorite of those is this one from 17-year deadball era veteran Fred Tenney. Tenney who played almost his entire career in Boston hit .294 lifetime with 2 231 hits and was known for his fielding prowess a first baseman with the same reputation as Hal Chase without the off-the-field baggage. Tenney was nicknamed the "Soiled Collegian " due in part to his Ivy League education at Brown University. Perhaps best known as the player whose back injury caused him to sit out that well-known Giants-Cubs game in 1908 that resulted in his substitute Fred Merkle committing the "boner" that ultimately blew the pennant for the Giants Tenney finished his career as player-manager of the 1911 Boston Rustlers hitting .263 in 369 at bats as a grizzled 39-year-old veteran. Evidentlthe grandfather of the original owner of this piece was Brown University classmates with Tenney as alluded to in this lovely personalized letter from Tenney which reads as follows: Dear Skippy: Your "Gramp" was a classmate & I remember him very well. Please give him my regards and tell him I hope to see him in June on our 55th anniversary. Cordially Fred Tenney Brown '94 Boston Nationals & NY Giants 1894-1911 The postcard is dated April 7 1949. Hopefully Tenny was able to attend the anniversary celebration that June as he lived to the age of 80 passing in July of 1952. Full LOA from James Spence Authentication.