Well, that all sort of makes me happy.
I didn't like it, but more based on the item. A FDC for that stamp is a good candidate for a sig, but not necessarily that one. (It's also a good candidate for fakery since they're cheap and common) The cancel is a machine done cancel, so it would have been in a big stack of covers being run through the machine and those almost always went into the mail rather than being handed back. I'd have to check, but at some point they were very against cancelling and handing the cover back because it was mail and had to go through the system.
The typed address is also more like a mail ordered cover than one that was gotten in person. A quick search finds five with the identical cachet but no autograph all with different typed addresses and all canceled with the 9 AM time. So the commercial cachet maker sent a bunch to Cooperstown beforehand, the PO processed them and put them into the outgoing mail from the ceremony.
Of course a cover could be signed later, but that's less likely.
Steve B
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