Harry Wright Scorecard in Clean Sweep

[barrysloate]

Originally Posted by doug.goodman

I would love to have a full game, but am saddened to say that I am kind of interested in a page. I guess Gary and I are of like minds.

It's still a nice affordable way to get a Wright signature, on a document no less

[Keith H. Thompson]

I have the complete 1889 Harry Wright Scorebook (Lew Lipsett) and two of the 1890 individual books including the pre-season. A fascinating feature of the Wright scorebooks that I have seen are the detailed pre-season and post season books which contain baseball history otherwise difficult to research. My interest, of course is in the career of Sam Thompson.

My question for the Net54 members and for the NYC Dinner attendees in particular -- would the owner of any other 1890 Wright individual booklets share that information with me ?

Keith H Thompson

[khkco4bls]

It Pisses me off when they destroy history. GREEDY BASTARDS..

[tazdmb]

I will play Devil's Advocate and am glad the Scorebook got broken up. It allowed collectors-including myself-to get a piece of history at an affordable price. Additionally, the scorecard themselves are still intact, it is not as though the buyer cut the signature out of the scorecard. With all the stolen Wright documents out there, it gave average collectors a chance at getting his signature and collecting a moment of history at the same time.

[barrysloate]

I'm not aware of stolen Harry Wright documents. Do you know of any specifically?

[whyconform]

<----------------- Underbidder

Eventually I'll get one

[tazdmb]

Originally Posted by barrysloate

I'm not aware of stolen Harry Wright documents. Do you know of any specifically?

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/05/s...5bats-001.html
https://sabr.org/latest/nash-fbi-ret...auction-seller
https://nypost.com/2013/07/28/new-yo...d-sold-online/

It goes on and on....

[barrysloate]

Thanks. Those were of course part of the Al Spalding Collection, and it sounds like most of the stolen letters were written to Wright. So that wouldn't technically be from his hand. But I'm splitting hairs- clearly there is still a lot of stolen material circulating.