Hall of Famer who became the first league Most Valuable Player to emerge from a team’s own farm system. ALS signed “Jim Bottomley, St. Louis Cardinals,” two pages, 6 x 9, Hotel Schenley letterhead, no date. Final two pages of a longer letter. In part, “I am just a boy, 23 years old. I have been play. professional baseball since 1920. I used to be a Machinest Helper before I started to play and each winter after the season I go back to my little home…with my Mother & Father in the Machine Shop.” In fine condition, with expected folds and small mounting remnants to vertical edges. COA Steve Grad/PSA/DNA and R&R COA.
