Dazzy Vance

[HexsHeroes]

. . . about how Dizzy Vance was first notified that he was elected
into the Baseball HOF.

I first read that story in the first book I ever purchased (Strange But
True Baseball Stories?), through one of those Scholastic book clubs
associated with elementary schools in the mid-1960's.

[slidekellyslide]

I've never heard the wife/memorabilia story...I purchased a lot of photograph album pages with photos of Dazzy Vance on them from an ebay seller who said the album was Vance's.

Dazzy with New Orleans


A vacation photo with Dazzy

[gashouse34]

http://articles.latimes.com/2013/may...dgers-20130526

Heres a link to that Vance/Wheat L.A. Times article if anyone would like to read.

[btcarfagno]

I sold this ball to a board member a month or two ago. It was from an Old Timers game and was signed on February 4, 1961. Dazzy passed away 12 days later. This may well have been the last ball that Vance ever signed.

Tom C

[Jasonxmay]

Here is my Dazzy Vance. It's from the collection of John Laity, meaning it was signed on a New York subway platform between 1933 and 1935. I have ten different signed 1933 Goudeys from Mr. Laity's collection and they are easily identifiable because of the red line he drew as a way of telling the player where to sign. He also trimmed off the "Big League Chewing Gum" banner on the cards that featured those. My Ruth and Gehrig would be worth a lot more had he not trimmed that off.