Pioneer Wright's letters pulled from auction
Published 7/3/2009 by Bobbie Dittmeier at Major League Baseball News
Letters written to Harry Wright, a Hall of Fame manager from the earliest days of professional baseball, have been temporarily pulled from an auction because of an FBI investigation into whether they may have been taken years ago from the New York Public Library.
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