It's funny that they would do this with players such as Moore, who lived forever and were very responsive signers. Also, Moore's signature on a 3X5 certainly fits within card companies' understandable limitations on sizing (unlike, say, latter-day Frankie Frisch, whose signature took up a great deal of space on a 3X5).
Moore was another one of my ballplayer friends. I tried to dig up a picture from the one visit I had with him, but can't locate it. He was a deacon in his church for decades and as fine a man as they come. A fire destroyed most of his memorabilia, but perhaps the greatest piece managed to survive: a baseball signed, "For Joe Moore, Franklin D. Roosevelt". Right up to the end, it was kept on a small table beside the chair in which he sat.
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