I'm not going to comment on the Quincy Troup(p)e signatures, since I don't have mine close at hand right now - but I'll just mention a couple of interesting things.
Quincy Trouppe, the 1952 Major Leaguer, spelled his last name with one p - Troupe, like his family had spelled it for many generations. As late as the 1900 census, though, they didn't use an e on the end - it was just Troup. Somewhere along the line, Quincy added an "e" on the end - Troupe, and in 1946 he added a second "p" - Trouppe. According to his self-published 1977 autobiography,"Twenty Years Too Late," that was because he had played six years in Latin America, and the Mexican fans pronounced his name "Troo-pay."
A much shorter, but excellent biography of Quincy Trouppe can be found in the Bioproject section of the SABR website.
Then, there is another Quincy Troupe (one p) who is the ballplayer's son. Although the Internet Movie Database says he was born in New York City in 1943, he was most likely born in St. Louis in 1939. He is a poet, co-wrote (with Chris Gardner) the book "The Pursuit of Happyness" which was the basis for the Will Smith movie of the same name, and he was the first Poet Laureate for the State of California. but he resigned that position when it was learned that he had never graduated from Grambling University, as he had claimed. Much more can be found about Quincy Troupe, Jr. by doing an internet search.
In short, both Quincy Sr. and Quincy Jr. used the "Troupe" spelling, but Sr. used "Trouppe" after 1946.
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