Cy Young Authentication Help

[Runscott]

Here are a few we could talk about

Going clockwise from top-left, in each photo, there are eight (1-4 and 5-8). I picked these to show as many different styles as I could find. Obviously, #3 in photo 1 is the bad signature from the ball. But #2 in photo 1 is also bad in my opinion. I'm just using my eyeballs and my brain's ability to recognize patterns, so tell me I'm wrong, and why.

[ScottR81]

Originally Posted by Runscott

Here are a few we could talk about

Going clockwise from top-left, in each photo, there are eight (1-4 and 5-8). I picked these to show as many different styles as I could find. Obviously, #3 in photo 1 is the bad signature from the ball. But #2 in photo 1 is also bad in my opinion. I'm just using my eyeballs and my brain's ability to recognize patterns, so tell me I'm wrong, and why.

They all look so different! :0

Besides the wearing factor of the actual signature on whatever item has been signed how do you really know?

As far as how many Scott's there are, the 81 in my name is my birth year so can I at least claim that Im the youngest

[CMIZ5290]

The postcard next to the ball was mine....how do they not look similar? especially, compared to the other ones that are supposedly good?

[ScottR81]

Originally Posted by CMIZ5290

The postcard next to the ball was mine....how do they not look similar? especially, compared to the other ones that are supposedly good?

At this point now all I want to know about is the postcard left of the ball.

Because it is mine.

I need a stress test.

[Runscott]

Originally Posted by CMIZ5290

The postcard next to the ball was mine....how do they not look similar? especially, compared to the other ones that are supposedly good?

Kevin, out of all the Cy Young signatures I could find by googling, your postcard has the closest 'first glance' look to the ball's as any - I think he might have used yours as his model.

But the big giveaway in my opinion is the way he brings his pen up from the bottom of the 'u' and 'n' (bringing the pen up to the right). He loops out a little in the ball signature, but forms a 'v' angle on your old card. Another extreme example is that other one I think is a fake - it looks like he does the opposite of a loop, more like Connie Mack's style. Another habit was when he brought his pen back up to the left, he tended to relax and form a loop rather than an angle, but sometimes there was sort of an angle - on the bad one (the ball), and the other one I think's a fake, you see angles rather than loops.

An exception was that when he signed in a hurry, he didn't come back up with his pen (like in the return address and the one where he writes 'Peoli' underneath).

If you practice writing 'Young', trying to duplicate the loop vs the angle vs the inverted loop, for the 'u' and 'n', you'll find that you can probably only do it one of the three ways without the signature looking very unnatural.