I emailed Coach's Corner about the Cy Young ball they have listed that looks like it was signed in ball point pen. I told them ball point wasn't around when he played and this is what they replied back with.
Keith, ballpoint pens were common and sold in stores starting in 1945. Cy lived until Nov. 1955. In fact, they were common years before 1945 but not really available to the common people until then
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