Let's see your vintage minor league baseball!!

[Runscott]

I found an old beat-up baseball at my Grandmother's house - turned out to be a ball my Grandfather picked up at a Shreveport minor league game and had signed by at least one player, for my Mom. Well, my Mom promptly dropped it in a pile of black ink, completely obscuring the signatures.

Still, it was a neat piece of family baseball history (the only piece), so I kept it displayed in my glass-topped coffee table case. To my horror, I came home one day to find the dog gnawing the hell out of it. Somehow she had gotten it out of the case - must have been really tasty-looing. She chewed half the cover off. I still have it.

Reminds me of the recent car commercial that features a guy tossing an autographed Honus Wagner ball to his dog, 'Pickles'.

[Bill Rayburn]

The 1953 KITTY League (Kentucky-Illinois-Tennessee League), teams were also located in Indiana and Missouri at various times, championship trophy awarded to the Paducah Chiefs located in Paducah, KY. Also in the picture is an arm patch from 1953 celebrating the Golden Anniversary of the League. The KITTY was a Class D league and existed from 1903 through 1955.