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1890 Harry Wright Personal Scorebook for Twenty Games....
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1890 Harry Wright Personal Scorebook for Twenty Games. Wright's contributions to the early development of our National pastime place him right alongside Cartwright and Doubleday as one of baseball's most noteworthy pioneers. He was center fielder for the the first professional ball club, the 1876 Cincinnati Red Stockings, invented the box scoring system, designed the standard baseball uniform and was the first to direct his defense to shift in relation to hitters' tendencies. Yet despite his indisputable importance to the game, most Hall of Fame autograph collections find him sadly absent, certainly due to the great scarcity of available specimens born of the twelve and a half decades that have passed since Wright did.But here we offer a veritable mother lode of Wright handwriting, finding a home on the most desirable and thoroughly significant home they possible could, his own personal "Base Ball Score Book." It is meticulously utilized to track twenty games featuring the team Wright managed, the Philadelphia Phillies of the National League, with every last hit, run, error and out notated in the penciled shorthand style still utilized to this day. Written in his Hall of Fame hand are the names of others that would join him in eternity at Cooperstown: Billy Hamilton, Wilbert Robinson, Amos Rusie and Jesse Burkett. Most appealing about this historic bound volume, however, is the presence of Wright's initials "HW" in the "Scorer" box on five of the twenty games' pages, effectively a signature of one of the game's most consequential figures.
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2021 August 21 - 22 Summer Platinum Night Sports Auction #50045 (go to Auction Home page)
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August, 2021
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