SIGNED BY 22 HALL-OF-FAMERS, INCLUDING BOB GIBSON, BUCK LEONARD, STAN MUSIAL, YOGI BERRA, ERNIE BANKS, BOB FELLER AND WHITEY FORD

SMITH, Ken. Baseball's Hall of Fame. New York: A.S. Barnes, (1947). Octavo, original light green cloth, dust jacket supplied from another copy. $6200.

First edition of this history of the Baseball Hall of Fame, signed on the half title and title pages by 22 Hall-of-Famers.

"The Hall of Fame, of course, will ever be an incentive to the player, for each as a youth was a hero-worshipper, and the baseball star of the past is the guiding light of the present. To Emulate is a prime factor in baseball development. Thus, to achieve a high place in the presence of immortals at Cooperstown is a natural consequence of human desire… it has a value quite beyond that of money, of plaudits, of wide renown. It contains a sacred reward that only the boy saturated with the spirit of baseball can fully understand." Signers include Red Schoendienst, Fergie Jenkins, Monte Irvin, Lou Brock, Bob Gibson, Buck Leonard, Enos Slaughter, Lou Boudreau, Johnny Mize, Ray Dandridge, Brooks Robinson, Luke Appling, Stan Musial, Yogi Berra, Bob Lemon, Warren Spahn, Willie Stargell, Ernie Banks, Billy Williams, Billy Herman, Bob Feller and Whitey Ford. With a laid-in guide to the signatures.

Soiling to cloth, chipping to dust jacket. A very good copy, most desirable signed by 22 Hall-of-Famers.