In the 1990s I found this copy of the 1926 AL Constitution in a Cape Cod bookstore. It had belonged to Joe Cronin who was league president for 14 years.
In 1934, Cronin, a Hall of Fame shortstop, was sold by his uncle-in-law Clark Griffith, owner of the Senators, to Red Sox for $225k, a huge sum at the time.
I like how the book has glued-in updates. Interesting info includes policies for teams catching trains and the minimum of 50¢ for a championship ticket. Cronin died in 1984.
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