Earliest known Johnny Vander Meer autograph as a professional baseball player
I recently purchased a 1933 scrapbook that was assembled by a 12 year old female baseball fan from Dayton, OH. The fan clipped Dayton Ducks box scores and articles for over one season and neatly pasted them into her scrapbook.
The Mid Atlantic inaugural season 1933 Dayton Ducks were the 1st professional stop of LHP Johnny Vander Meer of double no-hit fame.
As I slowly thumbed through the pages I was pleasantly surprised to find that an unknown 18 year old rookie named Johnny Vander Meer signed the 12 year old fans' scrapbook.
The eBay seller posted some pictures of the scrapbook, but did not disclose that it had several autographs inside including one of Vander Meer even when I asked about it's specific contents. As many of you know, Vander Meer is one of my central collecting focuses.
The neat thing is that his early autograph is definitely different than anything that I have ever seen to date. Cool!
Last edited by Scott Garner; 05-09-2015 at 05:49 AM.
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