Personal Archive of Letters, Photos, Newspaper Clippings, and Other Materials

by Vernon Lefty Gomez

$8,000 · Offered by B & B Rare Books

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1972. Very Good. Vernon Lefty Gomez 1908-1989 was born in Rodeo, California, the youngest of eight children, to Francisco and Rita Gomez. He began playing baseball on his hometown team at age thirteen, and by fourteen was pitching throughout central California. In 1928, when Gomez was 20 years old, he signed a contract to play for the San Francisco Seals, and two years later he joined the New York Yankees. Except for a single game in 1943 with the

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