Do these autographs appear to be real?

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Posted By: William

If the experts agree that the ball is good, I'd jump on it. That's a great price for that ball.
With the proper assurances, I'd buy it and add as many 50's and 60's HOFers as the ball, or your wallet, can hold.

Seemed strange to me too that McCovey and Robinson would be questionable, yet the Mantle and Williams looked good. My feeling was that the latter were among the most forged autographs of the nineties and were more likely to look genuine. I've always found the lesser players to be the signatures that are more obvious slip-ups. A bad Killebrew is usually easy to spot, whereas with all the forgeries of Mantle out there it's hard to compare an apple to a bunch of oranges.

I think I remember Rose being at that show in 1989, still it's strange that someone would add him to their ball. I've seen some weird stuff on purported 500 HR balls over the years. One in particular had forgeries of all the 500 HR members and genuine signatures of Bobby Doerr and Duke Snider. That was a head scratcher. I guess some people think that if one or two are real then the whole thing is real.