Rare papers on Black Sox scandal of 1919 World Series head to auction

WTHI ^ | November 25, 2007 | Associated Press

[ozzymandus]

Wait, your grandpa fixed a bath tub?

[Hegewisch Dupa]

Seriously, with all the Cub love in this town, any historical papers connected to the darling lil Cubbies would be worth a mint.

Perhaps even a double mint.

[Tanniker Smith]

There's something foul about the whole affair.
I'm goin' home now.

[WL-law]

Why would the sellers use a small-time auction house? That will raise some doubt as to the authenticity of the docs.

I wonder if it was offered to major auctioneers in the Chicago area (i.e., L. Hindman Auctioneers) and rejected? BYW, L. Hindman has handled items from the Comiskey family, including selling actual pieces of Comiskey Park when it was dismantled — would that have been a natural choice?

[SunkenCiv]

Maybe there’s a provenance problem. I have no idea though.

[Hildy]

We also had the ORIGINAL contracts of Chick Gandil and the pitcher (don’t remember his name). It sold at auction for $35,000.

[SunkenCiv]

NICE!

[mikrofon]

I worked for a man who said his father or grandfather (?) gave someone the FIX money from his bathtub at the Gibson Hotel in Cincy

So you're saying this fellow's grandfather was a money-launderer?

[70times7]

Just thought I would unwrap and stick in this comment: Gum up the works? No, but at the least that pun was a bit of a stretch. Since Wrigley is the home of the Cubs, such propositions are simply mental mastication. No matter. When threads like this come along the punsters all bubble to the surface and pop in to leave a comment. Well, they can pack into this thread all they want. It will not change the fact that even after all these years this baseball championship scandal was series. (I know I was stuned)

[Rennes Templar]

That’s a lot to swallow!