HUGHIE WISE SIGNED Postcard GPC (d.1987) Detroit Tigers

TEAM: Detroit Tigers

SIGNER: Hughie Wise

APPROXIMATE SIZE: 3"x5"

MARKS / STAMPING: Hand-signed by Hughie Wise

ORIGINAL or REPRINT: Original

COMMENTS / CONDITION: As with all of my signed items, the signature is guaranteed to pass further inspection by any major authenticator, or your money back. See scans for conition and signature quality.

BIO: Hugh Edward Wise was born in 1906 in Campbellsville, KY and died in 1987 in Plantation, FL. He went to college at Purdue University. He played major league baseball for a single season in 2 games in 1930 as catcher for the Detroit Tigers. Wise played and managed in the minor leagues throughout the 1940's. He then scouted for the Boston Braves/Milwaukee Braves (1949-1958), New York Yankees (1959-1961), and Chicago White Sox (1962-1972). Wise put his engineering degree from Purdue to use by designing four diamond spring training complexes for both the Braves and White Sox.

SKU: CL02454

Item: CL02454