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Up for offer we have a signed, autographedpostal card by Babe Ruth. A rare autograph from the Ken Smith collection with a COA from Barry Halper.
Born in 1902, Ken Smith started in baseball as a bat boy for Danbury in New York, New Jersey. He began covering baseball for the New York Graphic in 1925, and later switched to the New York Mirror.
He covered the New York Giants for 30 years before the team moved to San Francisco.
He was secretary of the Baseball Writers Association of America for 19 years and also the director on 15 occasions.
Smith became the director of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in the 1960\'s until he retired in 1979 and was the author of \"Baseball\'s Hall of Fame\".
Ken Smith passed away on March 1, 1991.
