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jay behrensOne of my favorite gags to pull at a show was to have a friend walk around with signed Ruth ball that forged. When I was younger, I was quite proficient at forging sigs. Cut my teeth forging teachers sigs for hall passes.
Anyway, I waould take a new baseball, dirty it up a bit, practice my Ruth sig and then sign with a ballpoint pen. I would then give the ball to friend and have him walk it around the show and see just how many greedy fools were actually willing to buy the ball.
Most dealers when they say the ball just saw $$$ in there eyes. One or 2 would actually have a reference for sigs, but even thy were fooled. Never once did a dealer take a look at the ball to see who the league president was, which would have been a dead give-away, most people also don't realize that a Ruth signature in ballpoint, as far as I know, doesn't exist.
Too bad I have morals and ethics, otherwise, I could have gotten rich selling these balls.
Jay