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Description: Autographs. Manchester United & "Busby Babes". An autograph album with one page featuring the autographs of Roger Byrne, Eddie Colman, Mark Jones, David Pegg, Liam Whelan, Duncan Edwards, Dennis Viollet, Wilf McGuinness, Ray Wood Bill Foulkes, and on the facing page Johnny Berry, and on a separate page Tommy Taylor [seven of whom died in or as a result of the Munich air disaster]; 14 Hartlepool United signatures on one page, including Ralph Guthrie, Tommy McGuigan, Kenneth Johnson, Jackie Newton, Frank Stamper, Watty Moore, Billy Anderson, Ken Waugh [see provenance below]; 13 Wolverhampton Wanderers signatures on two pages, including Bert Williams, Billy Wright, Bill Shorthouse, Peter Broadbent, Colin Booth; 11 Tottenham Hotspur autographs on two pages, including Peter Baker, Danny Blanchflower, Terry Dyson, Ron Henry. The autograph album also features other miscellaneous signatures, including Teddy Gardner [boxer], Harry Secombe, Beverley Sisters, and others Provenance: A loosely-inserted newspaper clipping records a letter from Mrs E. Swann of Rugby Street, Hartlepool, 'Memories. Just a few months before the Munich disaster Hartlepool United played Manchester United in a cup-tie. They beat Pools 4-3. I had my granddaughter staying with me at the time. She was only nine years old and I bought her an autograph book. Ken Johnson one of Pool's players, took it to the Victoria Ground and got all the Hartlepool and Manchester Utd. players' autographs, even the trainer as well. It is one of her most treasured possessions.' This is the autograph book described, and the final leaf of the album is inscribed & signed by E. Swann