Let me explain what it is.
In 2003, SCGaynor was consigned items from the estate of Chief Bender and I worked a deal and purchased eight ledger books (smaller monogrammed pads) that were all filled out by Chief Bender's own hand.
They were mostly addresses, boxscores (after his playing career ended), expense reports, random notes, Clothing business cards and a few maps he drew that helped him get to places.
Of the 500+ pages, this was the only one noting a specific player of note in Frank Chance. He had some addresses in his book of players (like Bob Shawkey), but most of it was as noted above. Just samples of his handwriting.
There were no signatures in the collection, outside of one small pad which had a few rubber stamp signatures.
DanC
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