AMERICANA 58 Signed By 119 Negro League Players, Including Hall Of Famers Leon Day, Larry Doby, Monte Irvin, Buck Leonard And Buck O’Neil 75(BASEBALL). Negro League Autograph Sheet signed. Baltimore, October 13, 1990. One sheet, measuring 11 by 17 inches, printed and signed on the recto, framed. $9500 “Autograph sheet” from the Negro League Baseball Players Association reunion in Baltimore in 1990, signed by 119 Negro League players, including Hall of Famers Leon Day, Larry Doby, Monte Irvin, Buck Leonard and Buck O’Neil and Mamie “Peanut” Johnson, one of three women to play in the league. The Negro Leagues developed after the Civil War due to a “gentleman’s agreement” among MLB higher-ups to keep Black players out of the league. After a long period without an organized circuit, Andrew “Rube” Foster founded the Negro National League (NNL) in 1920. The Negro leagues thrived in the 1920s and then again after the Great Depression, but popularity began to wane in the late 1940s when Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in the MLB by joining the Brooklyn Dodgers and other star Black players started to shift over to the MLB. Fine condition, beautifully framed. “In A Hundred Different Ways Women Have Helped To Shape Our Country’s Course…” 76MELTZER, Milton, editor. Women of America Series. New York, 1969-78. Eighteen volumes. Octavo, original cloth, dust jackets. $4800 First editions, first printings of 18 (of 22) titles from the Women of America series, including two review copies and three titles inscribed by the author. From 1969 to 1978, Thomas Y. Crowell published 22 titles in its “Women of America” series. “The part women have played in American history has been given little attention up to now. Yet in a hundred different ways women have helped to shape our country’s course... Portrayed here—often for the first time—are women who refused to accept things as they were, who took great chances and offered bold challenges.” Included here are 18 of the 22 titles, attractively issued, and with an impressively broad array of female subjects (one-third of which were given female authors). The series included books on Pearl S. Buch, Mary Elizabeth Lease, Margaret Chase Smith, Lydia Maria Child and Abbey Kelley Foster. Books generally near-fine to fine, dust jackets very good to fine. Most copies of these titles went to libraries, with little exposure in the retail book trade: few copies survive in collectible condition.
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