Alice Denton Jennings was a well-known palm reader from Atlanta, Georgia, who had her subjects place their ink-stained palm on her letterhead and had them sign their names below the hand-prints. Among her famous subjects, was none other than Babe Ruth, who’s hand-print and signature were part of a 1943 Baseball Magazine character analysis. Another one of her subjects was baseball commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis. Landis, of course, was credited for cleaning up baseball’s image in the wake of the “Black Sox Scandal” when he banned eight Chicago White Sox players from baseball from intentionally throwing the 1919 World Series.

This 8 1/2" x 11" autographed palm print is perhaps the most unique original piece of Landis memorabilia. This off-white letterhead shows its age with rounded corners and a 1/8 inch rounded hole at the top center of this paper. Printed on the top in black is “-Studios of- Alice Denton Jennings Character Analysis Vocational Guidance Telephone CH. 2134 ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO 14 ROSWELL FOAD. ATLANTA, GEORGIA”. The inked hand-print is as strong and detailed as the day in the 1930s when it was done. The black fountain pen autograph of Landis beneath his hand-print is just as bold, the detailed print of his hand that is what's most fascinating about this. Looking at the ridges, creases and lines of his hand, you realize that this is actually the hand of the man who played a major role in cleaning up baseball’s gambling problems in the early 20^th century. This here is the hand of Kenensaw Mountain Landis! This item comes with a LOA from PSA/DNA (V05498).

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