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Frank WakefieldAll of this nice stuff above prompted me to dig out some more signed stuff...
From 1886, a $1000 bond for the New Jersey Junction Railroad Co. They needed money and were in receivership, the powers and forces figured a good way to have these bonds sellable was to have J P Morgan as one of the Trustees, that is his signature on the top line.
Next is a Lord of the Rings, Fellowship of the Ring card, the autographed Arwen card, Liv Tyler. Liv's Arwen brought additional energy into an already hot movie. I saw her performance and had to track down one of these cards.
And at the bottom is the signature page from Bill Walker's 1934 contract with the St. Louis Cardinals. For a few years I had this contract on loan at the Baseball Museum in St. Louis that was just outside the ballpark. They have some fine stuff, I suggest any of you in St. Louis check it out. I have Pepper Martin's 1934 Gashouse Gang contract, too. It is currently on exhibit at the Museum. Martin's contract has an extra clause typed in about attendance, as does this contract. Martin's is signed by Breadon, the president. This contract has a second extra clause, about abstaining from the use of alcoholic beverages, and you can see that the Cardinals' vice-president, Branch Rickey, signed. Wouldn't you have loved to have heard this contract being haggled out! I had a copy of Durocher's 1934 contract, it had an extra page in it, with the typed items initialled by Durocher and Rickey, with stuff about the club paying attorney fees, alimony, abstinance from gambling, and stuff like that. Rickey is a bit of a tough HOF autograph.
