COOPERSTOWN, WITH 60 SIGNATURES OF BASEBALL LEGENDS, INCLUDING WILLIE MAYS, JOE DIMAGGIO, MICKEY MANTLE, SANDY KOUFAX, BUCK LEONARD, HANK AARON, YOGI BERRA, STAN MUSIAL, REGGIE JACKSON, TOM SEAVER AND MANY MORE
(DIMAGGIO, Joe; MANTLE, Mickey; AARON, Hank; et al.) REIDENBAUGH, Lowell. Cooperstown. Where The Legends Live Forever. New York: Arlington House, (1988). Quarto, original half blue cloth, original dust jacket. $9200.
Updated edition of this profusely illustrated tribute to the National Baseball Hall of Fame, signed by 60 Hall-of-Famers, including Willie Mays, Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, Sandy Koufax, Buck Leonard, Hank Aaron, Yogi Berra, Stan Musial, Reggie Jackson, Tom Seaver, Carl Yazstremski, Duke Snider, Johnny Bench, and many more.
This exceptional copy of Cooperstown contains the signatures of 60 of baseball's finest, including Hank Aaron, Yogi Berra, Lou Boudreau, Joe DiMaggio, Bob Feller, Whitey Ford, Charley Gehringer, Bob Gibson, Billy Herman, Monte Irvin, Al Kaline, George Kell, Ralph Kiner, Sandy Koufax, Bob Lemon, Buck Leonard, Al Lopez, Mickey Mantle, Juan Marichal, Eddie Matthews, Willie Mays, Johnny Mize, Stan Musial, Robin Roberts, Brooks Robinson, Frank Robinson, Duke Snider, Warren Spahn, Early Wynn, Luis Aparicio, Lou Brock, Don Drysdale, Rick Ferrell, Harmon Killebrew, Pee Wee Reese, Enos Slaughter, Hoyt Wilhelm, Ray Dandridge, Bob Doerr (twice), Catfish Hunter, Willie McCovey, Willie Stargell, Billie Williams, Red Schoendienst, Fergie Jenkins, Johnny Bench, Carl Yastremski, Rod Carew, Hal Newhouser, Rollie Fingers, Tom Seaver, Richie Ashburn, Earl Weaver, umpire Al Barlick, Jim Palmer, Gaylord Perry, Joe Morgan, Steve Carlton, Phil Rizzuto and Reggie Jackson. The majority of the players have signed at their individual chapter in the text, with 18 of them signing on the front free endpaper. Biographies compiled by leading sports journalists of The Sporting News. With hundreds of color and black-and-white illustrations, many full page. First published in 1983. Small sticker on rear pastedown. With a list of signers and accompanying documentation laid in.
Book with mild soiling to boards, bright dust jacket with only minor wear. An excellent copy with a stellar collection of autographs.