Ned Irish Autographs
\nEdward Simmons Irish (May 6, 1905 – January 21, 1982) was an American basketball promoter and one of the key figures in popularizing professional basketball. He was the founder and president of the New York Knicks from 1946 to 1974. He was enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1964. Cary Elwes portrayed him in the 2023 movie Sweetwater.
Irish was born in Lake George, New York. His father died when he was three years old and his mother, a nurse, moved with him to Brooklyn, where he attended Erasmus Hall High School. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1928 and began working as a sports journalist for the New York World-Telegram. To supplement his income, in 1930 he began working in public relations for the New York Giants football team. That job led him to run the National Football League's information bureau during the 1930s.
While at the World-Telegram, Irish covered basketball games in the small 500–1,000 seat gymnasiums of the day. He often told a story of covering a game at Manhattan College where the crowd so overwhelmed the tiny gym that he had to climb in through a window, tearing the pants of the best suit he owned. Whether the story was true or not, he told it often and it became associated with his drive to expand the game of basketball to meet the appetite of fans for it.
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Traded items with a signature of Ned Irish
The most expensive item with a signature of Ned Irish (1968-74 Hall Of Fame Bookmarks Edward Ned Irish (d. 1982) basketball signed Auto) was sold in September 2025 for $649.99 while the cheapest item (RARE NBA HOFER NED IRISH SIGNED CARD & NICE PRINT D1982) found a new owner for $6.09 in February 2010. The month with the most items sold (2) was May 2025 with an average selling price of $240.99 for an autographed item of Ned Irish. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in September 2025 with $649.99 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $9.95 was April 2024. In average, an autographed item from Ned Irish is worth $51.50.
Most recently, these items with a signature of Ned Irish were sold on eBay - click here for more items.
| Picture | Item Title | Price | Store |
 | 1961 HOFer Ned Irish SIGNED New York Knicks + Cincinnati Royals TRADE Document | $274.99 |  |
 | 1961 HOFer Ned Irish SIGNED New York KNICKS / Cincinnati Royals TRADE Document | $274.99 | |
| 1964 HOFer Ned Irish + Ben Kerner SIGNED St. Louis HAWKS / KNICKS Trade Document | $206.99 | |
| 1968-74 Hall Of Fame Bookmarks Edward Ned Irish (d. 1982) basketball signed Auto | $649.99 | |
| Basketball Hall Of Fame FDI envelope signed/autograph Ned Irish - N.Y. Knicks | $48.00 | |
| NBA Hall Of Famers Signed Envelopes:Ned Irish,Lucy Harris,Bertha Teague,Luisetti | $9.95 | |
| NED IRISH AUTOGRAPHED 3X5 HOF D.82 JSA | $34.00 | |
| Ned Irish Basketball HOF Autographed Signed Index Card | $50.00 | |
| Ned Irish New York Knicks Pres NBA Basketball Hall of Fame Signed 3x5 Index Card | $29.99 | |
| NED IRISH Signed 3x5 Index Card PSA Slabbed BASKETBALL | $46.50 | |
| Ned Irish Signed Card 3 1/2x6 PSA/DNA slabbed Naismith Basketball HOF 1964 | $99.99 | |
| New York Knicks HOFer Ned Irish SIGNED 1961 Letter NBA + Madison Square Garden | $79.99 | |
| Pro Basketball HOFer Ned Irish Autograph Signed Naismith FDC d82 | $53.00 | |
| RARE 1948 DRAFT CONTRACT LETTER N.Y. KNICKERBOCKERS BASKETBALL SIGNED NED IRISH | $79.99 | |
| Signed/Autographed Basketball Hall of Fame (HOF) Bookmark Edward Ned Irish | $48.00 | |
