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Musial Collector
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Yesterday I was at the Twin Cities show and picked up this Musial 1946 check as it was signed as Stanley Musial, always wanted a Stanley sig. I noticed right away that there were two inks, a green and a black, but didn’t think anything of it while negotiating with the seller. When I got home and was looking it over further, I noticed that the writing between the two inks was different also. So I was thinking, this check was filled out mid-season by Stan and finished off by someone else later, more than likely his wife Lil. I was thinking that Stan probably filled this out before leaving for an away series, but needed to confirm this. So today I went out to baseballreference.com to look at box scores from around August 30th, 1946, the date of the check. Sure enough, on Aug 29th, the Cardinals finished up a home series, August 30th was an off day, and Aug 31st they started a series in Pittsburgh. I don’t know, I just find it kind of unique, filled out and signed by Stan, finished off by his wife more than likely. I just kinda 
like that :lol:
like that :lol: 
