WWII baseball items

[esiason14]

Wowsers, Ken. Now that is a collection. Just awesome.

Kyle

[Scott Garner]

Here are two pretty remarkable items that I just acquired related to Johnny Vander Meer's Naval Service in WWII:

- Vandy's Honorable Discharge Certificate from the US Navy.

- Vandy's official signed Notice of Separation from the US Naval Service dated December 1945. Note that Johnny's true last name is spelled Van Der Meer (3 words, not 2 the way he typically signed).

Pretty unique and certainly a great fit for my advanced Vander Meer collection!

[jerseygary]

During the war Gene Hermanski of the Brooklyn Dodgers (and later the Cubs) was stationed on Long Island with the Coast Guard. On weekend leave he'd play with the Brooklyn Bushwicks semi-pro team under the name Gene Walsh so he wouldn't get in trouble with the Coasties. This is probably the only known autograph of "Gene Walsh" which comes from a 1944 autograph album put together by a teenage girl in Brooklyn that I was lucky to pick up.

[esiason14]

Very interesting and very cool. I didn't know he played under an different name.

[Den*nis O*Brien]

Originated from the Ralph Winnie collection

[Topnotchsy]

This is an old thread, but WWII items are one of the my areas of interest, so I hope no one minds me bringing it back from the dead.

I have a few signed baseballs from WWII teams. A couple of them come from Stan Musial's personal collection. Recently picked up a 1945 Navy AS Game signed ball (which apparently is the first time Musial and Ted Williams played each other...) Thinking it would be a pretty cool project to get Navy AS Game balls from each year they held them...

Here is a pic from one of the balls from Musial:

Edit: And I still can't figure out how to properly post pictures here... if anyone can help me, the links are all below but they don't seem to be showing up.

https://flic.kr/p/icabmq
https://flic.kr/p/icarja
https://flic.kr/p/ic9MRB
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[egri]

One of my neighbors was a LCDR in the Navy during the war. I don't have pictures of it, but he has a postcard signed by a bunch of members of the Gashouse Gang who came through with the USO. I remember Dizzy Dean was on there, and I think Joe Medwick was as well, and a few others.