January 29, 1936: Let's See Your Inaugural HOFers Sigs
 

On this day, January 29, 1936 the Baseball Hall of Fame inducted its inaugural class of Hall of Famers. Let's see some items from the first class:

Walter Johnson:

http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m...psf959772d.jpg

Inaugural HOF class sigs
 

Packs,
Love the WaJo vintage postcard!

Here are a few of my favorite signatures of Walter Johnson in my personal collection:

A signed and dated RPPC of WaJo from his last season 1927

A vintage questionnaire/ GPC from 1929 (photos of front and back)

A beyond rare 1940's Christmas card from the Big Train to one of his neighbors in Maryland

Circa 1930 Babe Ruth Index Card
 

So happy to have added this one to my collection!

4 out of 5
 

Going to be waiting for #5 for awhile I think...

#5 is certainly a long way away....but, i'm glad to have 4 of 5.

Here's my Honus:


http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m...jams/Honus.jpg

Very happy to own these 2/5...

Same boat as Dave - need me some Matty

Those letters make me jealous. Sweet!

WaJo check

http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s...ps1218a632.jpg

Wags check

http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s...ps9c350931.jpg

Cobb album page

http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s...psd266fec3.jpg

Here are my Cobb's

Here are some of mine:

http://i867.photobucket.com/albums/a...ps67a927f8.jpg

"I am going to ward off with God's help the "bow out" or final curtain as long as possible." Even the great Ty Cobb showed his mortality.

http://i867.photobucket.com/albums/a...ps292c7383.jpg
http://i867.photobucket.com/albums/a...ps085f89c6.jpg
http://i867.photobucket.com/albums/a...psf3d7ecd2.jpg
http://i867.photobucket.com/albums/a...ps1558daf1.jpg
http://i867.photobucket.com/albums/a...ps726ea126.jpg
http://i867.photobucket.com/albums/a...psfef26a57.jpg
http://i867.photobucket.com/albums/a...pse84c7d4a.jpg
http://i867.photobucket.com/albums/a...ps402763af.jpg

Ty takes a young fan to task in this one, LOL (ironically, the fan and Cobb developed a pen pal relationship that led to the fan penning a book which included this letter)

http://i867.photobucket.com/albums/a...ps3a415d85.jpg
http://i867.photobucket.com/albums/a...ps1dc184f9.jpg

Some of the greatest athletes of the early 1900's including the Peach

http://i867.photobucket.com/albums/a...ps98470c6a.jpg

and a signed envelope

http://i867.photobucket.com/albums/a...ps8e244116.jpg

Scary good pieces, Mike! Wow! :eek:

nice
 

Amazing items everyone. Got me itching to add to my collection soon

Jeff,

Just curious, where did you get that Cobb image from?

Graig

Graig,

Way back in 1992 a company called Megacards licensed a series of Francis Burke images and reprinted them in 16 x 20s numbered to 975. I bought the Cobb which I framed with the album page and this Johnson which I still have but ended up not using with my check.

http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s...ps0e6cd7ff.jpg

Here's a better shot of the Cobb photo. Same image used on the m101-4/5 card.

http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s...ps7cca28c7.jpg

Ahhh, I thought it was Burke. His images were so damn incredible. I wish there were more of them out there in the public.

This book, which was done by David R. Phillips, does have a number of great images in it, and is probably the largest collection of his stuff out there:

http://www.amazon.com/That-Ball-Game.../dp/B0010GE49G

Phillips was in possession of Burke's negatives a few years back, which included a melange of subjects in addition to baseball. Last I heard, he was in the middle of selling Burke's old negatives off as an entire collection, but I have NO idea whether that actually happened.

Graig

My Wagner and Cobb checks. Matted with photos of paintings by some guy.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...ncave/Wags.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...-280101371.jpg



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That guy sucks (the painter)!!

Graig

My memory on this is fuzzy, but I do remember high-quality Frances Burke baseball prints being sold years back - maybe 10 or so - there were a lot of them and they were high-quality. I believe it was a limited number of prints of each image, but I'm not sure. In any case it didn't last long and I can't even find anything about it by googling.

You're definitely right, Scott. I'm pretty sure the Johnson and Cobb images were part of that group. I also have ones of Matty, Wagner, and one of my favorites, a great shot of Matty chatting with Bresnahan, which I've enclosed below:

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b1...ps615132c8.jpg

It's a friggin' winner, no matter how you slice it.

Graig