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March 5, 1945, Barney dines in Hollywood and gets an autograph from Victor Mature. Probably signed with Barney's own pen, which always carried green ink.
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Autograph
Signed "Barney 'Pres' "
Probably a reference to the Oldfield Tire Co.
The Witzel Studios were in Los Angeles
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From Country Life in America, 1907
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Joe Tinker was immortalized in the Franklin P. Adams poem, "Baseball's Sad Lexicon," about the New York Giants' frustration against the Chicago Cubs double-play combination: "These are the saddest of possible words: Tinker to Evers to Chance."
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Photo courtesy of Wayne Carroll Petersen
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Barney with Harvey Firestone.
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The Saturday Evening Post, July 24, 1920
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Advertisement in The Literary Digest, March 29, 1919.
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