Unknown 3x5 Autograph ID Help? Baseball & Football Most Likely

[MooseDog]

Going through my 3x5s I found a small stack of "unknowns". Interestingly, I was able to ID a lot of them I couldn't previously, thanks in part to the proliferation of sites like Baseball-Reference.com and the like that weren't readily available "back in the day". That just shows you how long these have been in the closet.

If memory serves, and these days not too well, these came in a collection or accumulation I got in the early 1980s. My best guess is that these are either college football players from the 1960s and 1970s, or possibly NFL players or basketball players. I know most baseball and hockey players by sight from that era, but not football, basketball or the "minor" sports. Likely from that era though.

Even guesses are appreciated. Thanks for looking.

[mr2686]

I think the first one might be MLB player Gary Ward

[MooseDog]

Mike -

Thanks...I don't know how I missed that one! This exemplar was right there on baseball-reference.com!

[mr2686]

I tell you what though, Ward's D's are all over the place. I probably saw about 40 examplars of his sig last night and he probably had about 5 ways of ending his autograph...including the one above. I guess he likes to mix it up.