Consign Your Best Items with Lelands. We Also Pay Cash on the Spot! Learn More Here.
1931-33 Baseball Tours of Japan (9)
The Herb Hunter File. The man who organized the first Baseball Tours to Japan. A financial dispute arose and Lefty O'Doul took over the organization of such affairs for 1934. Includes nine images: two wire photos of a monstrous ticker tape type parade celebration upon the major leaguers arrival in Tokyo in 1931, two aboard the NYK ocean liner Chichibu Maru with Harvard players and trophy cup they won, 1933 tour with manager Fred Hoffman, individual shots of Hunter and his wife aboard the liner, small image from 1931 of just Hunter, and most interesting is one of him posed with a full box of Nippon baseballs. All are exceptional quality. Overall EX-MT. 8x10" unless noted.
Past Sports Card, Memorabilia, Non-Sports Card and Collecitble Auction Items
Other past auction items that may be of interest to you.
Herbert Hoover Throws Out First Ball (1929)
Prince Henry Oana (1929)
Charles Comiskey Funeral Photos
American Flag flies at Half Mast for Bill Veeck Sr. (1933)
Big Jim Weaver Carries the Waner Brothers (1934)
Alaskan Ballpark Under Water Real Photo Postcards (2)
1944 Old Timers Game at the Polo Grounds
