WWII baseball items

[Topnotchsy]

1944 Navy Hospital vs Air Force signed by Pee Wee Reese, Joe Gordon and Red Ruffing among others.

[JoeDfan]

Joe D. at Camp Cooke...

[btcarfagno]

I have a signed ball that I have researched that turned out to be of the 1943 Long Beach Ferry Command team.

The best signature on the ball is the super tough Wimpy Quinn. It also has Red Ruffing, Vince DiMaggio, Lou Novikoff, Berly Horne, Cliff Dapper, Nanny Fernandez, Chuck Stevens, etc.

Tom C

[Topnotchsy]

Originally Posted by btcarfagno

I have a signed ball that I have researched that turned out to be of the 1943 Long Beach Ferry Command team.

The best signature on the ball is the super tough Wimpy Quinn. It also has Red Ruffing, Vince DiMaggio, Lou Novikoff, Berly Horne, Cliff Dapper, Nanny Fernandez, Chuck Stevens, etc.

Tom C

Do you have a scan(s) you can share? I'd love to see.

If you would consider moving it please let me know. I have WWII related items along with many others that I'd consider moving, and would consider buying if we worked out a price.

[Topnotchsy]

Thanks to Tom C (btcarfagno) for an assist on this one.

Baseball comes from Bob Scheffing and is inscribed "Last ball pitched in Navy League National (4) American (3) October 6, 1945." Based on the score it seems like it was the last ball pitched on October 5th (in the second to last game, which was the series clincher, but not the final game of the series which was on the 6th but had a different score.)

I had known the baseball was signed by Musial, but had not noticed any other important signatures.

Tom C mentioned how rare Wimpy Quinn's signature was, and so I was pretty pleased to find his signature on this ball.

[Topnotchsy]

I feel bad, as it seems half my posts are asking for help with information, but this board has so much it is hard not to

Anyone know what exactly these are? Are they postcards? Pictures? They originated from Jack Phillips who played in the game and the backs list the rosters.

Edit: Also a little confused by what it says on the back "The Nationals Won the Series 4-3". In other places I have seen indicated that they played 6 games, and in others 5 games?

[earlywynnfan]

No help on the origins of the postcards, but here's Phillips' uniform!