Morey, Ritter & the Glory of Their Times

[T206Collector]

I just received a scan of a terrific letter from Larry Ritter to autograph legend Jeff Morey, essentially crediting Morey for helping him locate some players. I always had a theory that Ritter's book should be credited for getting the names of pre-war players into the minds of autograph seekers in the 1960s and 1970s. It is amazing to see that the autograph seekers themselves had a hand in Ritter's work.

Here's one of my favorite signed T206 cards from the Morey collection (Crawford -- who was also in Ritter's book), as well as a scan of the letter from Ritter to Morey.

[tiger8mush]

awesome! thanks for sharing, Paul!

Rob

[David W]

Here is an article Morey wrote for the March 1961 "Card Comments" on how to get autographs.

[teetwoohsix]

Very cool !!! Thanks for sharing this with us.........LOVE that T206 !!!!

Clayton

[toppcat]

The Glory of Their Times and The Boys of Summer are the two books directly responsible for me becoming very interested in the history of baseball. I read both of them when I was about 13 and they have stuck with me for a long, long time now.

[FrankWakefield]

Paul, that is one fine letter. I wrote Mr. Ritter about 7 years ago, hoping to get his autograph, but I got no reply. Great article, David.

It seems to me that a collector of our dear old cards must read The Glory of Their Times, I love the source of the title, and the "How dear to my heart" verse at the beginning of a couple of the chapters. We all owe Mr. Ritter a debt of gratitude. What a book!!!