Genuine Babe Ruth Autographs

[CardsFan999]

General question on forgeries that I didn't see mentioned in this thread: Does it make a difference if the forger is left or right-handed, since Ruth and Gehrig were lefties and signed left-handed? I would think that it would be easier for a left-handed forger to get the slant correct and so forth. Are any of the known forgers of Ruth/Gehrig left-handed.

[RichardSimon]

Originally Posted by CardsFan999

General question on forgeries that I didn't see mentioned in this thread: Does it make a difference if the forger is left or right-handed, since Ruth and Gehrig were lefties and signed left-handed? I would think that it would be easier for a left-handed forger to get the slant correct and so forth. Are any of the known forgers of Ruth/Gehrig left-handed.

Babe Ruth signed right handed.
Lou Gehrig signed right handed.

[CardsFan999]

I found photos of both signing right-handed. Very odd -- I've known a lot of lefties but never one that wrote right-handed. They must have been forced to do that in school which we no longer do.

I'd still like to know if forgers tend to be the same hand of the person that they're forging. I write left-handed and my writing slants to the right like the Ruth sigs at the beginning of this thread so perhaps it makes no difference whatsoever.

[JimStinson]

Originally Posted by RichardSimon

Babe Ruth signed right handed.
Lou Gehrig signed right handed.

Both Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig signed right handed, As did Ted Williams who was a NATURAL Right hander
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[Scott Garner]

Not a HOF'er, but Johnny Vander Meer, the famous lefty hurler, signed autographs right handed as well, FWIW...

[39special]

Steve Carlton also signs right handed

[cipollinaj]

Didn't one reason have to do with inks in the past did not dry as fast as
they do today so most people learned to write right handed
not to smudge the ink.
Another reason , I am a lefty but years and years ago I had to learn right handed in Catholic school. I think , but not sure, it may have had to do
with some of the definitions of "sinister":

1. situated to the left side of something
2.of ill omen by reason of being on left
3. accompanied by or leading to disaster or unfavorable developments

I think I'll stick with the right hand just to be safe

[JimStinson]

Originally Posted by cipollinaj

Didn't one reason have to do with inks in the past did not dry as fast as
they do today so most people learned to write right handed
not to smudge the ink.
Another reason , I am a lefty but years and years ago I had to learn right handed in Catholic school. I think , but not sure, it may have had to do
with some of the definitions of "sinister":

1. situated to the left side of something
2.of ill omen by reason of being on left
3. accompanied by or leading to disaster or unfavorable developments

I think I'll stick with the right hand just to be safe

I think it was a case of back in the day there was a CORRECT way and incorrect way, In a teachers way of thinking and that if someone was writing with their left hand that was by the standards of the day INCORRECT.

Ted Williams is one I always found "unusual" in that he was a NATURAL right hander , amazing in that the greatest LEFT HANDED hitter EVER was actually a right handed person.

When Williams was asked about it once he said he had no idea WHY ...and said it was not something he learned. He said that when he was a young kid the first time he ever picked up a baseball bat he swung it lefthanded
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