Paperstock signed photo of Conlon's photo of his famous slide into third $1300
Full LOA from PSA/DNA I sold a very similar one for $2600 a couple weeks ago so this is a pretty good price IMO.
Baseball Magazine Premium of another Conlon photo signed by the Peach. $2000
A red/blue stitched baseball signed boldly in fountain pen. Encapsulated by Beckett/JSA. Ball is also signed by Black Sox manager Kid Gleason, Joe Boley, and Everett Scott. As you can see, ball displays nicely and in a shadowbox setup would appear like a single. Beautiful late 1920's version of his autograph. If you've been in the market much for Cobb signed balls, you know that later in life signed balls of his can be found quite often while this vintage of this quality on a ball is relatively tough and much more expensive. $4,500
Interesting UNSIGNED letter where Ty takes a youngster to task for having the audacity to question an article Cobb wrote. $1,200
In this one, you can read where young Harold O'Neal, Jr. writes to Cobb and tells him about his grandpa playing with Cobb, mentions writing to Cobb before without getting a response, mentions how Cobb's suggestions have helped him in his ball playing abilities, but evidently makes the mistake of questioning why Cobb wrote a series of articles in Life magazine a certain way.
Young Harold evidently irked the Georgia Peach enough that Ty doesn't even bother wasting a piece of his stationary on young Harold and proceeds to ignore most of his letter, concentrating on a defense of his Life series, and ending by basically telling Harold the reason he didn't get a previous reply was because he didn't follow autograph etiquette by enclosing a self addressed and stamped envelope. To add insult to injury, Ty didn't even sign his reply, LOL.
Here's the text of Ty's response in case you don't want to twist and strain to read his reply:
"Dear Harold,
I note the fault you found in my Life stories, not mentioning certain players. I had only 12000 words allotted to me to use, the subject was selected as given to me by Life. I did not choose. If you were a very careful reader of story before you formed and expressed an opinion, you would have seen and realized-I said Musial and Rizzuto were type and example of ball players of moderns who could have played on old timer teams. I had to use only 12000 words, of course Reese & many others Yes Feller is a real or was a fine pitcher not because he is your favorite, he with any other modern pitcher cannot be placed on an all time pitching staff you have to go to the old timers see records, that counts How would you place any modern pitcher on all time Johnson, Mathewson, Alexander, Walsh, Plank, Grove, old Cy Young many others- lets be right in all this Records
You to be right, as I was, should have enclosed for convenience an addressed and stamped envelope. I receive an average of 4 requests for autographs alone
01-30-2016, 10:54 AM
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