March 2012 Auction Ends Wednesday, March 28th, 5pm Pacific
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Ty Cobb typed letter signed, dated 9 March 1925, on ''Detroit Baseball Company'' letterhead, where Cobb was both a player and manager for the Detroit Tigers at the time. Letter, typed in purple ink with handwritten corrections by Cobb, is addressed to sports agent Christy Walsh and discusses Cobb's distress over a Detroit News article defaming him. Reads in full, ''Dear Christy: I do not want to make you feel badly in any way because you are too fine a fellow, but I do want you to know that I have gotten in very bad with the Detroit News. I am absolutely sure that it dates from either the time I signed with you, or the letter which I signed to be used in the Detroit Times. I think if you will get a copy of the Detroit Times which carried this letter which I signed, you will find therein, a very vitrolic article - composed by Bert Walker. Anyhow, I have never had a cross word and have been very close to Miller, Bingey and Salsinger, and if you will obtain copies of the Detroit news dating Saturday, February 28th, Sunday March 1st, and Monday March 2nd, and peruse very carefully, you will see what they have done to me. I have been through lots of things but this is the most uncalled for punishment that I have ever taken and everything surrounding the entire proposition is absolutely rotten. I have been up against lots of things but this incident which gave the News the opening is the worst that I have ever experienced -- so you see I have been punished from two directions. Have lots to tell you when I see you concerning their efforts to injure me. Let me hear from you sometime -- I am, Very Truly, Ty Cobb''. Letter, measuring 8.5'' x 8.5'', has folding throughout, else near fine condition. With PSA/DNA COA.
Ty Cobb Letter Signed on ''Detroit Times'' Story -- ''...I have been up against lots of things but this incident which gave the News the opening is the worst that I have ever experienced...'' --
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