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Originally Posted by CMIZ5290
The postcard next to the ball was mine....how do they not look similar? especially, compared to the other ones that are supposedly good?
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Kevin, out of all the Cy Young signatures I could find by googling, your postcard has the closest 'first glance' look to the ball's as any - I think he might have used yours as his model.
But the big giveaway in my opinion is the way he brings his pen up from the bottom of the 'u' and 'n' (bringing the pen up to the right). He loops out a little in the ball signature, but forms a 'v' angle on your old card. Another extreme example is that other one I think is a fake - it looks like he does the opposite of a loop, more like Connie Mack's style. Another habit was when he brought his pen back up to the left, he tended to relax and form a loop rather than an angle, but sometimes there was sort of an angle - on the bad one (the ball), and the other one I think's a fake, you see angles rather than loops.
An exception was that when he signed in a hurry, he didn't come back up with his pen (like in the return address and the one where he writes 'Peoli' underneath).
If you practice writing 'Young', trying to duplicate the loop vs the angle vs the inverted loop, for the 'u' and 'n', you'll find that you can probably only do it one of the three ways without the signature looking very unnatural.