Opinions/IDs on some PCL autographs

[JimStinson]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

Thanks all; looks like a fine addition to my Lefty collection!

Adam as a bit of interesting trivia , since Lefty and Joe are next to each other , after DiMaggio left the Seals and signed his first contract with the Yankees , they wanted to re-sign him and STEAL him, O'Doul was friends with Ty Cobb who was living on the west coast at the time so when the Yankees tried to re-sign Joe he said NO , He was coached by O'Doul and Cobb on how to negotiate his contract .... it ticked the Yankees off like crazy but finally with help of O'Doul and Cobb , DiMaggio got what he was asking for

later it became easier with MacPhail as the way he would negotiate contracts with Joe was to tell him to write a number on a piece of paper and MacPhail would do the same , Larry told him that whichever one was higher he would go with , DiMaggio said MacPhail's number was ALWAYS higher than his
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[Exhibitman]

I read that in DiMaggio by Richard Ben Kramer. According to him Cobb ghosted DiMaggio's negotiation letters. Barrow even sent DiMaggio a letter during the Cobb-driven negotiations stating "tell Cobb to stop writing me letters."