[travrosty]

That looks like his autograph but a little rushed. He must have signed in a hurry and didn't pick up his pen on the K in Kaline.

After the first downstroke to start off the K in Kaline, instead of picking up his pen and then starting again, he just brought it all the way around and kept it on the card to finish off the K. It isn't like him to do that as I couldn't find another example of it in the short time I looked, but the rest of the auto matches.

Take off the top of the K in Kaline and it will look more like we are used to seeing.


It seems to be an older signature of Kaline as the L in Al is higher than all the other sigs that are more recent. All the reproduced signatures on his topps cards seem to have the higher L too.

Here is another signed card of 54 that looks like the one you posted if you take away the swoop he made by not picking up his pen. you can see it had the higher L too like the old reproduced signatures on his cards. Sorry the photo is a little small.