Yearbook autographed by ‘Moonlight’ Graham fetches $9,400 at auction

Yearbook autographed by ‘Moonlight’ Graham fetches $9,400 at auction

Recently sifting through possessions she’d collected over the years at her home in California, Gail Franzone meticulously tried to identify an autograph on a San Francisco Giants-emblazoned baseball. Her quest led her to dead end after dead end — no one could place the signature — but also to an article on baseball’s rarest autographs.

Yearbook autographed by ‘Moonlight’ Graham, ballplayer who attended medical school in Baltimore, fetches $9,400 at auction

Archibald “Moonlight” Graham, immortalized in the 1989 movie "Field of Dreams," served for decades as a doctor at a high school in Minnesota. He signed a 1951 yearbook, which was auctioned Tuesday for $9,400.