Lou Gehrig was the first athlete to appear on a box of Wheaties. But who knew that the Iron Horse was also a grape nut? That’s the impression one gets after reading three letters the New York Yankees Hall of Famer wrote sometime in the 1930s to a grape farmer in New York. The letters are part of the October 2022 sale by California-based Nate D. Sanders Auctions that ends … [Read more...] about Gehrig’s Grapes: Letters From HOFer To Grape Farmer Up for Auction
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Civil War Era Baseball Letters Are a Window to History
Heber S. Thompson was almost at the end of his four-year commitment to Yale University in the spring of 1861. Ready to graduate, the shortstop on the school's fledgling baseball club would commit to something else instead. Thompson enlisted in Lincoln's army four days after the fall of Fort Sumter and joined theBill Fuller: Talks of his "short stop" who … [Read more...] about Civil War Era Baseball Letters Are a Window to History