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    Bobby Riggs First Day Cover Signed "Bobby Riggs" with accompanying autograph note signed twice and found on the back of ...

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    Bobby Riggs First Day Cover Signed "Bobby Riggs" with accompanying autograph note signed twice and found on the back of a check. FDC measures 6.5" x 3.5", dated June 20, 1974, and commemorates "the Centennial of Sokols in America." Measuring 8.25" x 3" and found on the verso of a "First National Bank of Pennsylvania" check, the note reads in full: "You are very nice and of course I would not charge you for my signature. All the best to you. Bobby Riggs the happy hustler." Bobby Riggs, a professional tennis player during the 1940s, is best known today for his participation in the "Battle of the Sexes" in which he lost to female tennis player, Billie Jean King. Very fine.

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    December, 2011
    8th Thursday
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