Just a Note Saying Goodbye to Legible Autographs:

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Both of the autographs pictured below were signed by Jackie Bradley Jr. of the Red Sox for me last year, signed in a casual relaxed setting at Fenway for my son.

I had the chance to ask him why such a difference in his signatures, and he told me he used to always try to sign in the very neat legible way, but it just got hard for him to do baseballs that way, so he abbreviated it when signing balls. Then it morphed into signing that way when he was trying to sign a bunch of things. But when he has the chance, he will take his time and sign in a manner where you can read the whole name.

I thought it was a breath of fresh air to at least be able to see a signature I could read, if only in one of them!