Don Zimmer's Original 1961 Cubs Contract - Large Scans Added

[gracecollector]

Excellent win for the Don Zimmer PC - his signed 1961 contract to play for my favorite team, the Chicago Cubs. $19,000 got the Cubbies a second-rate second basemen, although he did make both 1961 All-Star games (they played 2 that year). Love that the original mailing envelope was included!

 

[MaineMule]

Re: Don Zimmer's Original 1961 Cubs Contract

Great pick-up of Zim! Never cared for him back in the day as Sox manager, but he seems like a great baseball guy.

 

[gracecollector]

Re: Don Zimmer's Original 1961 Cubs Contract

Great pick-up of Zim! Never cared for him back in the day as Sox manager, but he seems like a great baseball guy.

Yeah, most Red Sox fans hate him. 1978 kind of soured them on him, to put it mildly.

 

[jay1065]

Re: Don Zimmer's Original 1961 Cubs Contract

Wow! Great addition to your Zim collection.

 

[ballerskrip]

Re: Don Zimmer's Original 1961 Cubs Contract

congrats, that is SICK

 

[MaineMule]

Re: Don Zimmer's Original 1961 Cubs Contract

Great pick-up of Zim! Never cared for him back in the day as Sox manager, but he seems like a great baseball guy.

Yeah, most Red Sox fans hate him. 1978 kind of soured them on him, to put it mildly.

...yup, I was 12 in '78 and that was a tough year....great comeback only to lose the one game playoff. Also felt bad for him about the Pedro incident earlier in the decade.

 

[mrwhitesox30]

Re: Don Zimmer's Original 1961 Cubs Contract

That's a great pick-up for any baseball fan, and especially for you. I hope I can pick up something as unique as that for my Sox collection. I had to check out who sold that and that seller has a lot of great items.

 

[JackLondon]

Re: Don Zimmer's Original 1961 Cubs Contract

Amazing! Cool that you have not only the contract, but also the certified mail envelope (with address!)

 

[TNP777]

Re: Don Zimmer's Original 1961 Cubs Contract

Brad, that's a very nice pickup. Congrats - I'm very happy for you.

 

[gracecollector]

Re: Don Zimmer's Original 1961 Cubs Contract

Got the contract in hand. In case anyone has ever wanted to read a 1960's MLB contract...

 

[ee10]

Congrats on the pickup...that is NICE!

 

[xcantgobackx]

AWESOME piece! Congrats!

I don't know if this matters, but maybe it wouldn't be a bad idea to blur out his Social Security Number on the image you posted? Just a suggestion.

 

[gvsu96]

Brad,

Great looking piece. Nice to see that you have it in hand.


Josh

 

[jbhofmann]

AWESOME piece! Congrats!

I don't know if this matters, but maybe it wouldn't be a bad idea to blur out his Social Security Number on the image you posted? Just a suggestion.

It's ok he has LifeLock.

 

[zep33]

Very cool item. Funny it cost 44 cents to mail that back then

 

[JEA2880]

AWESOME piece! Congrats!

I don't know if this matters, but maybe it wouldn't be a bad idea to blur out his Social Security Number on the image you posted? Just a suggestion.

It's ok he has LifeLock.

LifeLock, what a life saver... wait, nevermind:

http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2008/05/18/l ... ous-times/

 

[matfanofold]

Wow, not a bad contract for a guy who was 74 years old at the time!