Handwritten Harry Wright scorebook for his Philadelphia team in 1889.
Lot 1. Handwritten Harry Wright scorebook for his Philadelphia team in 1889. Beautiful leather bound book comprises 8 of Wrights own “Harry Wright Pocket Base Ball scorebooks” in which he dutifully scored each game in 1889 for his Philadelphia team. The 8 books were then meticulously bound. All games from March 6th 1889 to October 25, 1889. The first page of the first book has written in pencil “March 1st Florida trip - Irwin-Clements - Andrews - Delehanty - Casey - Hallman - Mulvey - Gleason - Shriver - Mitchell - Kirby - Thompson - Sanders - Decker” and then “Absent - Buffington - Farrar - Pete Wood - Bastian” in Wright’s own hand. Every game is neatly scored in Wright’s own hand and many he has initialed “HW” in the box at the bottom in the “Scorer’s box. Virtually all the National League players in 1889 will be found in the book. A historical document once in the Bruce Foster collection in Philadelphia.
Minimum Bid $10,000.
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