HOF signed checks

[Scott Garner]

Nice post Gary. I love the Caey Stengel check and the significance as you described. Very cool!

[mighty bombjack]

I only have two checks in my HOF collection, both Yankee baseball related

This one is a check from Ed Barrow to William Harridge, paying the league its share of the gate from a homestand.


Here is a Yankees payroll check to Tony Lazzeri, which was endorsed and cashed by him at the Yankee's spring training in Florida. The sig here is affected pretty badly by punches, but his sig is tough enough that I'll take it!

[doug.goodman]

Apologies in advance for a very slight hijack of this post.

The topic caused me to go digging for the one check I have in my collection, a Ty Cobb made out to the Biltmore Hotel in Atlanta on July 22, 1955.

While looking for the check, I found a note that my dad received when he was a kid. Somebody (he doesn't remember who, but is currently pondering it, I anticipate a return phone call in the next hour) got Ty Cobb's autograph for my dad on a flight from Atlanta to the west coast, it is dated less than 2 weeks later.

I had never noticed the dates until now, but find it pretty cool / strange that of all the Ty Cobb checks that exist in the world, 30 years ago I bought one from Fred Copp that was written so close in time to when he signed an autograph to my dad.

Doug


PS - I also like the fact that there is no number or address on the check. My bank laughs me out of the building when I show up with less than 13 forms of picture ID.