Morgan Bulkeley Baseball HOF Signed 1911 Riggs National Bank Check PSA/DNA 5417

Offered is a Bank check, dated March 13, 1911, signed by Morgan Bulkeley, first president of the National League in 1876. PSA/DNA has encapsulated the check and graded the signature NM-MT 8. Checks signed by Morgan Bulkeley are exceedingly rare. This is just the second we have offered, and we can recall only having seen one other. The check, drawn on The Riggs National Bank of Washington, D.C., is made out to "Cash" in the amount of $250.00. Signed "M. G. Bulkeley" in black fountain pen along the base. No endorsement appears on the reverse. In 1876, when the National League was formed, Bulkeley was elected unanimously as its first president. He was previously the president of the Hartford Dark Blues of the National Association. In the league's inaugural season, Bulkeley greatly enhanced the game's image by reducing gambling and drinking, but after one season he left baseball to pursue his interests in business, as president of the Aetna Insurance Company, and politics, eventually serving two terms as Mayor of Hartford, four years as Governor of Connecticut (1889-93), and six years as Senator (1905-1911). Bulkeley died in 1922 and was elected to the Hall of Fame's second class in 1937. The check (7.75 x 3 inches)