The Provident Savings Bank & Trust Co. check, 8.25 x 3, filled out and signed by Rixey, "Eppa Rixey Jr.," payable to Thayer American for $39.30, February 1, 1957. In fine condition, with a few smudges to ink. An uncommon offering from the retired Hall of Fame pitcher and intellectual—Rixey wrote poetry, took graduate school classes in chemistry and mathematics, and during the off-season was a Latin teacher at Episcopal High School in Alexandria, Virginia.
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