November 14, 2019: Sports & Americana Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 11/14/2019
This oversized check is signed by turn-of-the-century baseball player Ted Kennedy and dated Oct. 22 (possibly 23), 1907. Kennedy was a professional baseball player who played pitcher in the Major Leagues from 1885-1886 and died Oct. 27, 1907, so the check was written less than a week before he died. He would play for the Louisville Colonels, Philadelphia Athletics, and Chicago White Stockings. Inventor of the baseball catcher's mitt, he sold his patents to the A.G. Spalding Company and opened a baseball school, specializing in teaching the curveball, and also manufactured sporting goods - specifically baseball gloves and catcher’s mitts. He also invented a pitching machine and was developing the first electronic scoreboard at the time of his death. The check is written for $4 and arrives slabbed by PSA/DNA.
Ted Kennedy Signed Bank Check (19th Century Baseball Player) (1907) (PSA/DNA)
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