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In the collection is a 3×5 index card signed by Hall of Fame pitcher Ed Walsh. The last man to win 40 games in a season, Walsh also lays claim to the lowest lifetime earned run average in the history of baseball – 1.82. When interviewed for Larry Ritter’s The Glory of Their Times, Tiger Hall of Famer Sam Crawford said, “Big Ed Walsh. Great big, strong, good-looking fellow. He threw a spitball. I think that ball disintegrated on the way to the plate, and the catcher put it back together again. I swear, when it went past the plate, it was just the spit went by.”