Early ALS signed “Dutch Reagan,” 8 x 10.25, Central Broadcasting Company letterhead, April 8, no year but circa 1937. Letter to a fan, in full: "Just a note to thank you for your kind letter and to tell you how happy I am to know I've helped bring you entertainment. I'll miss the many friends like you who have made my work here so pleasant. I'm sorry I haven't a regular portrait—this snap shot is all I have [not included]. I hope it will do. Thanks again for your kindness & may you enjoy many more baseball games." Bears collector's pencil notations to lower portion. In very good to fine condition, with intersecting folds, overall light creasing, and short splits to two fold ends.
A 21-year-old Reagan earned first job in 1932 when he accepted a job as a sports announcer at WHO in Des Moines, Iowa. One of his main tasks was to re-create Chicago Cubs baseball games, acting out the play-by-play from details he received over a teleprinter in an attempt to make it sound like he was in the stadium and reporting on the game from the press box. He left WHO in 1937 when, following a chance screen test he took during a Cubs California road trip, he was offered a seven-year contract with Warner Brothers studios. Reagan's film debut occurred in 1937 when he costarred opposite June Travis in Love is on the Air; the job of Reagan's character, Andy McCaine, was a radio commentator.
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