This lot is closed. Bidding ended on 12/21/2017.
The cover of the contract reads, “AMERICAN LEAGUE PLAYER’S CONTRACT - American League Base Ball Club of New York With J. Robert Shawkey (manager)”. The cover has the signature of the American League president Ernest Barnard and is dated, “APR 1 1930”. The body of the contract states that Shawkey earns “an aggregate salary of $15,000”. The second-to-last page is signed in a secretarial Jacob Ruppert signature and Shawkey in blue ink on October 22st, 1929 and in our opinion the signatures rate a combined 8. Accompanied by a LOA from JSA.