Ted Kennedy Signed 1907 Bank Check Inventor of the Catcher's Mitt (Encapsulated by PSA/DNA)

Encapsulated by PSA/DNA. The offered check is signed by 19th-century baseball player Ted Kennedy--inventor of the baseball catcher's mitt--and dated Oct. 22 (possibly 23), 1907. Kennedy was a professional baseball player who played pitcher in the Major Leagues from 1885-1886 and died Oct. 27, 1907, so the check was written JUST DAYS before he died. He would play for the Louisville Colonels, Philadelphia Athletics, and Chicago White Stockings. Kennedy sold his catcher's mitt patents to the A.G. Spalding Company and opened a baseball school, specializing in teaching the curveball, and also manufactured sporting goods - specifically baseball gloves and catcher’s mitts. He also invented a pitching machine and was developing the first electronic scoreboard at the time of his death.