This lot is closed. Bidding ended on 4/30/2009.
Tremendous 4-1/2” x 6-1/4” autograph album book belonging to Harry Fissell and dated “8/20/30,” jam packed with single-signed and multi-signed pages of fountain pen autographs ranging the full spectrum of baseball legends and Hall of Famers from the 1920s and 1930s. The cover shows some wear and cracking, pages are generally clean with signatures that average a grade of 8 to 9 with several 10s. In order, the signatures are: multi-signed page of 1930 Senators with Joe Cronin, Art Shires, Goose Goslin and Jack Hayes, also signed on the back by Charles Wilson; multi-signed page of mostly 1931 Braves with Bruce Cunningham, Walter Berger, Red Worthington, Wes Schulmerich, Cliff Bolton, Mike Delaney, Don Larnhardt, Pat Veltman, Tom Zachary, George Treadwell and Rabbit Maranville; multi-signed page dated “1931” of 1931 Senators with Roy Spencer, Bob Burke, Bump Hadley, Harry Rice, Ad Liska, Sam West, Buddy Myer, Sam Rice and Joe Judge; multi-signed page of 1931 Senators with Ossie Bluege, Walter Johnson, Dave Harris, Joe Cronin, Fred Marberry, Alvin Crowder, Carl Fischer and Joey Kuhel; single-signed page with Heinie Manush; multi-signed page of mostly 1931 Phillies with Hugh Willingham, Dutch Schesler, Frank Watt, Ed Fallenstein, Jack Onslow, Jim Elliott, Ben Shields and Fred Koster; multi signed page of 1931 Senators and Phillies with Lefty Bolen, Frank Watt, Lloyd Davis, Buzz Arlett, Sam Jones, Lloyd Brown and Hal Lee; multi-signed page of mostly 1931 Senators and Athletics with Fritz Maisel, Wally Tauscher, Joe Hauser, Hank McDonald, Lew Krausse, Ed Rommell, Roger Cramer and two others; single-signed page with Lefty Grove; multi-signed page of mostly 1931 Athletics with Rube Walberg, Max Butcher, Joe Boley, Mickey Cochrane, Jim Moore, Bill Shores, Phil Todt and Jimmie Dykes; multi-signed page of 1931 Athletics with Jimmie Foxx, Al Simmons and George Earnshaw; multi-signed page of 1920s-1930s Yankees with Lou Gehrig and Henry Johnson; multi-signed page of mostly 1931 Yankees with Earle Combs, Myril Hoag, Art Jorgens, Jim Weaver and one other; multi-signed page of mostly 1931 Yankees with babe Ruth, Ben Chapman, Lefty Gomez, Cy Perkins, Lew McEvoy, Jimmie Reese, Myril Hoag, Joe McCarthy, Joe Sewell and one other; multi-signed page of 1920s-1930s Yankees with Red Ruffing, Tony Lazzeri and Lyn Lary; multi-signed page with Tom Oliver and one other; unknown single-signed page. Accompanied by a LOA from JSA.