Early Mike Piazza or ?????
 

Can anyone help me on this? Looking to sell this signed ticket, but wondering if this is a 'ballpark rushed" signature of Mike or someone else? Thanks All!!!! Scott

I think it could be but he is inconsistent in his signature. I didn't see another incidence of the "tail" like that. But could be. He is all over the place.

Maybe? Here's my early sig. Little hard to see on this photo but the sig and photo are from his first spring training:

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/911/2...32539c9afc.jpg

That early signature looks close to me. I will wait for more opines before selling

Any other opinions??? thx

This is one of those signatures that will forever be a mystery.

Send Mike Piazza the picture on Twitter @mikepiazza31 and ask him if he signed it.

I don't have twitter. :(

What are the chances that doing that - not specifically with Piazza, but with any celebrity, either through the mail or in person - will result in the person saying "yes, I signed it" whether or not he really did?

My thinking is that people on this level sign so many autographs that they're not going to remember a specific item unless it's an extremely unusual piece, so some of them might say "yes" just to be nice, whether or not they really did sign it.

Here's a video of the wrestler John Cena signing 3,000 photos. He might remember signing the photos as a whole, but I doubt if someone came up to him with "a" photo from that session he'd remember signing that specific one.

I think the idea is that the person might recognize their signature rather than the specific item itself.

FWIW I think it matches up fairly well to the signature on the old Vero photo. To be honest I can't think of any other "MP-loop" it could be from that time period.

The chances are about as good as finding someone who remembers him playing for the Marlins. It's a longshot.