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Posted By: Jeff Lichtman

I'm a Kerouac fan and anyone who has read biographies of him knows that beyond being a huge sports nut (he was recruited to Columbia to play football for Lou Little) he actually developed this sophisticated baseball playing card game that included teams named for cars: Washington Chryslers, Pittsburgh Plymouths, etc. Baseball was a major passion of his. Below is a check he wrote out to himself and endorsed on the back. Below his name on the back is his address, 34 Gilbert, in Northport, New York, where he moved a year after "On the Road" was published.