Lefty's 70th" Menu from the 70th Birthday Party Celebration (November 29th 1978)

Published by Lefty Gomez Birthday Committee (1978), San Francisco,Ca, 1978

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Seller: Old New York Book Shop, ABAA, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.Old New York Book Shop, ABAA

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Celebration for Lefty Gomez who pitched for the New York Yankees and played from 1930-1943 inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1972. "In November of 1978 1000 people attended his 78th birthday party at the St Francis Hotel in San Francisco" (p358 Lefty an American Odyssey, Ballantine 2012) The menu is signed by the following Hall of Famers on a party handout 4p quarto, card covers with blue string tie: Monte Irvin, Cool Papa Bell, Bob Lemon, Billy Herman, Bobby Brown, Charlie Gehringer, Ernie Banks, Ted Williams, Ralph Kiner, Enos Slaughter, Warren Spahn, Joe Sewell, Stan Musial, Willie McCovey, and Happy Chandler. Laid in is a quarto sheet from the Lefty Gomez Birthday Committee as a formal invitation plus a complete ticket signed by Gomez.

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Title
Lefty's 70th" Menu from the 70th Birthday Party Celebration (November 29th 1978)
Author
(Lefty Gomez)
Publisher
Lefty Gomez Birthday Committee (1978), San Francisco,Ca
Publication year
1978
Condition
Fine
Signed
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Binding
Original wraps
Edition
First Edition.
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