Bill Dickey

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Gehringer was a very willing signer and his signed baseballs are plentiful but inscriptions are ultra rare on his baseballs , so much so that they should be approached with caution .
Mantle was probably the first big inscription signer beginning around 1988. He at first began with inscribing his uniform number then his HOF year and then it snowballed from there .
Inscriptions add value to baseballs in general but if the player died before say 1993 I’d be extremely cautious especially with elderly players or Negro Leaguers when buying an baseball with an inscription from that time frame .