Josh Evans Passed Away

[Keith H. Thompson]

I've known Josh since he was a high school student helping his mother set up and sell at New England antique shows. He had a precocious instinct for baseball cards and memorabilia, and his enthusiasm was infectious. I believe Josh is a graduate of Babson College. In those years he usually had a corner of the family booth devoted to baseball, and it took off from there.

My collection of seats and chairs from all of the fourteen parks that the "original" sixteen major league teams played in (say 1950) owes much to Josh. He had a good eye, and always described the chair accurately.

I will remember Josh and his family with great fondness.

[oldjudge]

I remember going down to Leland’s Saturday morning auctions in the early-1990s. Josh ran them and all the big names from the New York area were there. I did some, but not a tremendous amount, of business with Leland’s over the years, mainly because they were more memorabilia than than cards. However, despite not being one of their active customers Josh always treated me well. He was a hobby scholar and a gentleman and I will miss him.