SAM LACY SIGNED Note Handwritten Letter (d.2003) HOF BBWAA Journalist

APPROXIMATE SIZE: 8-1/2"x11"

MARKS / STAMPING: Handwritten note and signature by Sam Lacy penned at the bottom of a typed autograph request letter.

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: Samuel Harold Lacy was born in 1903 in Mystic, CT and died in 2003 in Washington, D.C.. Sam Lacy was an African-American and Native American sportswriter, reporter, columnist, editor, and television/radio commentator who worked in the sports journalism field for parts of nine decades. Credited as a persuasive figure in the movement to racially integrate sports, Lacy in 1948 became one of the first black members of the Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA). In 1997, he received the J. G. Taylor Spink Award for outstanding baseball writing from the BBWAA.

SKU: L14032

Item: L14032