Here's a fantastic piece of baseball history. It's a 1925 dated check of the New York Yankees (The American League Base Ball Club of New York,Inc). It's made out for $2,000 to the Yankees. It is signed by owner & president Jacob Ruppert and Edward Grant Barrow. The check is in beautiful condition and comes with a Certificate of Authenticity from JSA (Cert # A35755).

About Edward Grant Barrow:

Edward Grant Barrow (May 10, 1868 - December 15, 1953) was an American manager and executive in Major League Baseball who guided the Boston Red Sox to the 1918 World Series title, then built the New York Yankees into baseball's premier franchise and greatest dynasty as their top executive from 1921 to 1945. Barrow would use trades, the development of talent through a farm system and the outright purchase of players to build a Yankee team that would win 14 pennants and 10 World Series between 1921 and 1945. Barrow was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame by the Veteran's Committee in 1953.

About Jacob Ruppert Jr:

Jacob Ruppert, Jr. is surely best known for giving New York and the United States The New York Yankees and Yankee Stadium. In 1914 he partnered with Spanish-American War hero Col. Tillinghast L'Hommedieu Huston (who he soon bought out of the deal)to buy the then-called New York Highlanders which they soon renamed the New York Yankees (after Jacob added the pinstripes!). In 1915, Jacob Sr. died launching younger Jacob to brewery president as the first sounds of Prohibition began to rumble. The Yankees gave Ruppert a source of income to withstand the throes of Prohibition as the team grew to unimaginable fame with the likes of such greats Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Waite Hoyt, Joe Dugan and later Joe Dimaggio. In 1923, he finished building Yankee Stadium, "the House that Ruth built" (actually, for decades my family has always countered that expression with "the House the BEER built!"). By Ruppert's death in 1939, the Yankees won ten pennants and seven world series.

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