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Posted By: pat

About 5 years ago a guy walked into the Chicago Sun Times show. He was not a collector but was there to sell a bunch of memoribilia that belonged to a family member for the past 30 years. There was a bunch of 1930s to 1950s cards but also some memorabilia. Of interest to me were three early Chicago Cubs home programs he had - 1910, 1915 and 1918. There was an old sticker on the front of the old plastic sheets they were in where the family member had written the year of the program and who the opposing team was. I needed the 1915 but he wanted to sell all three. They were all in real nice condition and I just quickly paged through them to make sure they were complete and did not have any missing or ripped pages and that the interior was as nice as the exterior. I bought the three for his price of $1,800 for all three which was pretty much retail. I needed the 1915. I already had the other two years but figured I could sell the other two for what I paid for them to some other cubs collectors I know.

About a month later I took the other two programs out to make some scans of them and send to a few people to see if they were interested. I pulled out the 1918 which was marked on the sticker as against the Boston Braves. I took a look at the Boston score sheet and Harry Hooper's name jumped off the page at me. I almost fell off my chair when I realized I was holding a 1918 world series program instead of a regular season program. For 1918 the cubs used a standard regular season program and just changed the scoresheet.

By far my best find.