RARE 3x0.75 Vintage clipped signature by Steve O'Neill in green fountain pen ink. Tape marks on the ends, otherwise, excellent. (1891-1962) Steve O'Neill was an American professional baseball catcher and manager. He played his first 13 seasons with the Cleveland Indians. As a manager, he led the 1945 Detroit Tigers to a World Series championship.Steve would end up having the most successful playing career of the O'Neill brothers, serving as a catcher for 17 years in the American League. He made his major league debut as a September call-up on the 18th in 1911 for the Naps against the Boston Red Sox. He went 1-for-4 while stealing a base. He would spend the next twelve years with the team. He appeared in eight other games, collecting four total hits. He gradually played more for Cleveland in the next three seasons, going from 69 to 80 to 87 games; in 1913, while batting .295 in 80 games, he received votes enough to finish 24th in MVP voting.[5] He then played a majority of a season for the first time in 1915, playing in 121 games while batting .236 with 91 hits and 34 RBIs; he hit two home runs that season, the first of just thirteen in his career. Aside from 1917, when he batted .184, he would bat above .230 for the rest of his career. O'Neill collected his first hundred-hit season in 1919, doing so by collecting 115 hits in 125 games while driving in 47 runs; he batted .289 while also collecting 35 doubles with 48 walks and 21 strikeouts. The following year, he had his finest and longest season. He played 149 games and batted .321 with 55 RBIs and career highs in hits (157), doubles (39), and home runs (three). His final home run of that season came in a moment of tragedy. On August 16, he hit a home run off Carl Mays of the New York Yankees. That same night, as he drove in another run to win the game for Cleveland 4-3, a Mays fastball hit Ray Chapman in the head saw him die that night; O'Neill and the rest of the team saw his body before the funeral and he fainted after seeing him in the casket. That season saw Cleveland win the American League pennant for the first time ever. In the 1920 World Series, O'Neill batted .333 by going 7-for-21 while driving in two runs (both in Game 1, which Cleveland won 3-0) as they beat the Brooklyn Robins in seven games.Comes with a full Letter of Authenticity from Todd Mueller Authentics.