Opinions needed for signed baseball.

[r2678]

This is a Lee MacPhail ball that I've owned for at least thirty years. I've always had doubts so I stuck it on a shelf and forgot about it. Just found it and thought I'd see what others thought. Thanks.

[earlywynnfan]

They all look like they were written by the same hand to me.

Ken

[Deertick]

Yikes. Looks like someone who used Topps cards as their examples to work from.

[Runscott]

Wonder where he got the idea for the Willie Mays? Is there a period when Mays' signature looked like that?

[MooseDog]

Originally Posted by Deertick

Yikes. Looks like someone who used Topps cards as their examples to work from.

This. You can find similar work on those Topps issues that have autographs on them (1959, 1967, 1971, 1975).

[Bigdaddy]

They are all signed by the same hand.

Still a good batting practice ball though.

[r2678]

Thanks, all. No surprise.

[shelly]

Out side of the ball being a total piece of garbage. What card do you think they copied the JOE D from?

[Klrdds]

I think they copied the Joe D from one of those ubiquitous Joe D and Marilyn Monroe signed baseballs that are so plentiful in the hobby....and also so real.

[djson1]

Originally Posted by shelly

Out side of the ball being a total piece of garbage. What card do you think they copied the JOE D from?

I think Joe D's sister did some of his secretarials in this style.

[yanksfan09]

He used a few different pens on the ball, and purposely tried to mix up order of them. However if real and only the three pens were used, no way you would get an order like that.

To use a phrase from Silence of the Lambs, it's pattern is "desperately random."