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Earle Combs Letter Collection
The HOF Yankee leadoff man and centerfielder who set the table for big guns Ruth and Gehrig retired in 1935 with a .325 lifetime average. By the early '40s he was a traveling salesman for Madison Frozen Food Lockers in Richmond, Kentucky. This collection of 26 letters from various stops to Rawlings' Pat Olsen from 1940 to '54 reveals a soft-spoken man who worried about money and being forgotten, but never lost his humility. In one 1947 letter he writes excitedly about the new baseball pension plan of $100 a month. In other letters he asks if anyone Olsen knows might need a locker to store food. Always, he is charming and gracious, generally ending with "Sincerely, Earle". Twenty-six letters, all NRMT.
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