An interesting Cubs/old time baseball item

[whitehse]

I have posted a number of times that I worked for the Chicago Cubs for a number of years back in the 80's which was before the memorabilia boom in this hobby. A number of times they would clean out a room and throw out some items only to see me dumpster diving to pull items I thought were cool back out. This was one of those items.

Robert Lewis was the Cub's Traveling Secretary back in the 20's and 30's and probably experienced some incredible baseball in his lifetime. He apparently was well thought of as the Old Timer's Baseball Association of Chicago decided to honor him at their 25th annual winter banquet back in 1943. Presented here is the program I dug out of the garbage and amazingly enough it looks like it was printed yesterday (with some toning in the paper). I believe this to be Lewis' own personal copy as it was found with a good deal of his personal papers. I thought I would post the whole program as there are some names from baseball's very distant past that are represented within these pages. This program is measure a bit larger than a paperback book (the size reminds me of the Sunday "programs" one would get from an usher as they entered Church) and is in incredible shape.

I hope you enjoy looking at this program. I am looking at donating this to the new Chicago Baseball Museum if they want it.