Hall of Fame Veterans Committee List

[prewarsports]

FYI

The (2) Mullane Wills that I discovered in 2005 are NOT "Certainly Stolen". If you know anything about the way the Legal System works there are always 2 copies of Wills, one is filed with the Court and one goes to the Family for their records. The Will in Mastro was also superseeded by a new Will filed in the 1940's and was invalid anyways so it is doubly NOT stolen, wasn't even valid at the time of Mullane's death. If anyone has any questions about either Will I will be happy to give you a paper train that started with Mullane and ended up with me, in the process it went to his Daughter Ina Mullane (Schworm), her Daughter Dorothy Schworm, through the Lake County Probate Office in Illinois, then to me, and then to Masto. Case closed! I have one Mullane autograph left if anyone wants to see that too.

I know there have been problems with some Wills in the past being stolen, but this is not that case and both the Mullane Wills out there (the one from the 1940's is signed TWICE) are as clean as can be!

Also FYI, if anyone ever has any questions about his autograph, ALL his signatures in the hobby originated from me and the estate I bought so feel free to e mail me with any questions at all.

Rhys Yeakley

Attorney

[mr2686]

Looks like Ruppert, O'Day and White have been elected. At least I have a Ruppert. Curious as to why Breadon didn't get in since he had multiple championship Cardinals teams, but not complaining since I still need him for my 1934 project and didn't want to see his price jump.

[JimStinson]

That should make things interesting, The last O'Day I sold was 7 years ago for 6K
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[Tom Hufford]

All the "Ruppert signatures" actually signed by Ed Barrow on checks, contracts, and player transfers are going to drive collectors nuts for years to come!

[Mr. Zipper]

Originally Posted by Tom Hufford

All the "Ruppert signatures" actually signed by Ed Barrow on checks, contracts, and player transfers are going to drive collectors nuts for years to come!

Can you share an example of a ghost signed Ruppert?

[David Atkatz]

Originally Posted by Tom Hufford

All the "Ruppert signatures" actually signed by Ed Barrow on checks, contracts, and player transfers are going to drive collectors nuts for years to come!

Never seen one on a check. Very common on contracts and transfers.
But they don't look anything like Ruppert's actual signature. They're as "loopy" as Barrow's.

[David Atkatz]

Here's a Barrow-signed Proxy on a Pipgras contract:

[Mr. Zipper]

Originally Posted by David Atkatz

Here's a Barrow-signed Proxy on a Pipgras contract:

Ok... pretty obvious. Thanks for sharing.

[mr2686]

Originally Posted by David Atkatz

Never seen one on a check. Very common on contracts and transfers.
But they don't look anything like Ruppert's actual signature. They're as "loopy" as Barrow's.

Can't remember seeing one on a check either.

[byrone]

Anyone else similar to my (erroneous) thinking that Ruppert was already in the Hall of Fame?

I never realized before that he wasn't.