Autograph Identification Help

IMeddie

All,

Autograph identification help needed on a program.
It appears Walter O'Malley is on there.

Todd

MooseDog

I'll do the easy ones - these are all players & managers. O'Malley by far being the most valuable.

Walter O'Malley Fred Haney

Merrill Combs
Al Zeke Zarilla

SDSportsFan

To the right of O'Malley is Fred Haney.

Steve

MooseDog

The cool thing about oddball stuff is you learn something new all the time. Intrigued by the OPs piece, I did a little research on the Masquers Club, which appears to have been a social club for actors in Hollywood. Some of the non-baseball names on the piece might be actors or involved in show business. You might consider sending your scans to the Club (apparently still going) via the website and see if they can shed some light:

Masquers Club

ga5150

The easiest may be the one towards the right-Steve Boardner. It matches the printed business card in the middle of the page. I went over the rosters for the 1932 Summer and Winter games and couldn't figure out the one that looks like Boyce Conniff.

fkw

couple things to add...

to me it looks like the "Steve" in the middle is preprinted on the flier, and Mr. Boardner just added his last name.

Merrill/Meril Combs was a player for the Oakland Oaks of PCL in the late 40s, I have a few cards of his (1948 Signal Gas, 1948 Smith's Clothing, etc.), he also played some in the MLB under "Merl Combs". He was from the LA area too.

The Camiff/Canniff is a strange one, nothing comes up at all with good searches, youd think an Olympian is somewhere on the internet, and its a vintage sig (like all of them) and easy to read (unlike the unreadable crap these overpaid clowns scribble nowadays).

I can read almost every one well, I dont have the time now w/my slow jungle internet, but if you google them as you see them they might hit something baseball or hollywood

ga5150

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The Camiff/Canniff is a strange one, nothing comes up at all with good searches, youd think an Olympian is somewhere on the internet, and its a vintage sig (like all of them) and easy to read (unlike the unreadable crap these overpaid clowns scribble nowadays).
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I agree....strange one. I found an Olympic site with (what i think) is a complete roster for the games and it's broken down by sport also. I went through 400 some odd listings and even checked Canada looking for something similar to match this one to. I suppose a name could have slipped by, but you'd think an Olympian name would pop up somewhere on a search.

IMeddie

Thanks for all of your responses.

MooseDog

Boardner's place has quite a history...

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