Truly Obscure Yankee Stadium item

revmoran

My grandmother picked up a team signed item from the NY Football Giants in 1929. Most of the signatures were of players, but there was one in there that I could not identify - John Edward Lenz. But, when Wellington Mara died there was a story in the newspaper about how he had met Babe Ruth back in the 1920s - a friend of Tim Mara named John Lenz who was the announcer at Yankee Stadium took Wellington into the dugout to meet the Babe. Then I found an article on the web by Keith Obermann titled "The Voices Before Shepherd" with a photo of Lenz and the story of his career. Shortly after that there was an eBay auction with some passes that once belonged to Lenz. Here's the autograph, two passes, and a photo of Lenz as the Stadium announcer in the days before electronic amplification.

storm888

Excellent!!!!!!!!!

Tedw9

Those are sweet! Great job on the research and figuring out who the auto belonged to.

Thanks for sharing.

edmundfitzgerald

Nice items. The reason Lenz is laughing/smiling is because he's telling the fine people at Yankee Stadium that one day
not too long from now that good ol' folks will be paying 2,500.00 dollars for the seats they paid 2 dollars for. Everyone
is thinking Lenz is drunk, but Lenz was an amazing predictor of future events.

gonzer

Nice acquisitions rev....and excellent sleuthing to get the history.

WinPitcher

I agree, thanks for sharing.

Steve

nightcrawler

That's neat stuff, when did they start using electronic amplification I wonder???

dontippet

<< <i>That's neat stuff, when did they start using electronic amplification I wonder??? >>



By 1939....."Today, I'm the luckiest man on the face of the earth!"

RonBurgundy

Very cool.

By the way, someday I want one of those cards that grants admission to any and all stadiums with my name on it.

csmtampa

Those are soem nice items. Great research revmoran