Mordecai Brown auto

[w7imel]

Dave, from what I have seen all his autos look slow and shakey...There only a few balls out there with his auto so I dont think it was a common signed item at the time and dude only had 3 fingers....haha that couldnt have helped. Is around same timeframe as joe jackson and look at his writing. safe to say back then they didnt get as many balls handed to them to sign as these modern atheletes...Try autographing a ball sometime and it really does feel wierd. Again just some thoughts on the ball

[David Atkatz]

Originally Posted by w7imel

Dave, from what I have seen all his autos look slow and shakey...There only a few balls out there with his auto so I dont think it was a common signed item at the time and dude only had 3 fingers....haha that couldnt have helped. Is around same timeframe as joe jackson and look at his writing. safe to say back then they didnt get as many balls handed to them to sign as these modern atheletes...Try autographing a ball sometime and it really does feel wierd. Again just some thoughts on the ball

Nonsense. Take a look at the Heritage ball--also signed in the late twenties.

[baseball tourist]

Originally Posted by David Atkatz

Nonsense. Take a look at the Heritage ball--also signed in the late twenties.

Can only offer that the Heritage ball has "1919" dated on it, not late twenties.

[David Atkatz]

My mistake re: date. Still don't like the ball shown here. According to Wikipedia, he pitched an exhibition game in 1928 against the House of David, and did very well, indeed. The ball in question is dated 1928--no reason to believe he wasn't still in fine shape.

[w7imel]

dave all I can tell you is the baseball he has , it has been in his families possition for the past 8 decades and pretty sure back in 1928 there wasnt some person going around signing baseballs for mordicaei brown. The man who asked me to show it to you guys is not lying to me about the ball. he is as surprised about the rarity of the ball as any of us. It is not like today where we have pages and pages of auto samples to copy. where even would someone come up wiyh a known example to copy? Oh well everyone has an opinion, there always has to be a doubter in the crowd I guess.

[jgmp123]

Originally Posted by w7imel

dave all I can tell you is the baseball he has , it has been in his families possition for the past 8 decades and pretty sure back in 1928 there wasnt some person going around signing baseballs for mordicaei brown. The man who asked me to show it to you guys is not lying to me about the ball. he is as surprised about the rarity of the ball as any of us. It is not like today where we have pages and pages of auto samples to copy. where even would someone come up wiyh a known example to copy? Oh well everyone has an opinion, there always has to be a doubter in the crowd I guess.

Hey Michael,

I wouldn't focus too much on the date and what "auto samples" were around then. If it's a forgery, it likely wasn't forged in 1928. You may want to have someone take a look at the ink and try to date it first. I do believe it look slowly drawn and the "three finger" thing has nothing to do with it.

Take a look at this non-shaky example from 1946 (2 years before his death and almost 20 years after yours):

[tazdmb]

Jim-I think yours is the fake

JK-That really is a nice example!