Simply Amazing - What Was This Guy Thinking?

[Ritz]

Originally Posted by Runscott

I applaud you for keeping your cool in your responses; however, your comment above doesn't really go very well with the following hype from your ebay description. The fact that he only had limited playing time over two years (1911,12) would make any complete document of historical value. But maybe there are Krichell-signed autographs all over the place.

"Paul Bernard Krichell (December 19, 1882 – June 4, 1957) was a Major League Baseball catcher, best known for being the head scout for the New York Yankees for 37 years until his death. Krichell's talent evaluations and signings played a key role in building up the Yankees' run of success from the Murderers' Row teams of the 1920s to the 1950s teams led by Casey Stengel."

Ah, I see the misunderstanding here. In your quote above, I was actually referring to the context of the letter, not Krichell himself. Krichell himself, was indeed significant. But this letter was very low on the totem-pole of items one can find with his John Hancock on it (or without it, as the case may be lol). He's a definite handful of times a year eBay popper-upper. (And thanks! .. Always risky wading into new waters! )

[Leon]

Originally Posted by Ritz

Ah, I see the misunderstanding here. In your quote above, I was actually referring to the context of the letter, not Krichell himself. Krichell himself, was indeed significant. But this letter was very low on the totem-pole of items one can find with his John Hancock on it (or without it, as the case may be lol). He's a definite handful of times a year eBay popper-upper. (And thanks! .. Always risky wading into new waters! )

Thanks for coming on the board Ritz. I know some of the guys at Beckett very well and we are good hobby friends. Even friends on the outside somewhat. (playing cards and stuff) I still don't care for cutting documents up but it's your stuff so you can do as you please. (of course) Happy collecting and thanks for joining in the reindeer games. Don't be a stranger. The card side can always use more fodder too.

[Runscott]

How's this for a coincidence...

Today I decided to catalog all of my photographs, and found one of my favorites - a framed photo of the 1913 Kansas City Blues (for the younger generation, I will describe it as a 'Type I'). It has a guy i.d'd as 'Kritchell', who is of course your man, 'Paul Krichell'. 2nd row from top, far left.

[David Atkatz]

That's an OK picture, Scott. But if you want to see something really nice, cut out Kritchell's head, and paste it into Ritz' 1951 yearbook, right next to the Kritchell signature. Then you'd really have something!

(And you could sell the mutilated photo on ebay for a few bucks, too!)

[Runscott]

Originally Posted by David Atkatz

That's an OK picture, Scott. But if you want to see something really nice, cut out Kritchell's head, and paste it into Ritz' 1951 yearbook, right next to the Kritchell signature. Then you'd really have something!

(And you could sell the mutilated photo on ebay for a few bucks, too!)

I must confess - My complaints about this were all out of jealousy. I have already cut out ALL of the individual players and pasted them each on index cards - I am cutting out signatures from documents and pasting alongside them as I find them. Kritchell is a toughie Now I'm going to have to beg Ritz for his.

Be right back - not quite through cutting up my set of 1905 Sporting Life composites.

[David Atkatz]

Well, if you really need a signature, I suppose I can clip the one from this letter:

[Wymers Auction]

Ritz I will bet you never expected this much entertainment out of a hundred dollar letter!