What I find interesting is that Hugh Jennings generally had a much different autograph on a baseball than on a flat surface. His signature on a baseball tended to be more of a print style, especially with his "J" (several players did this back in the day) for the exact reason already mentioned... signing a round baseball is difficult with a steel tipped fountain pen. Logic would tell you that signing a bat would be equally difficult so I wonder why he would sign in this style here as well. Just a thought.
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