A Few More Signatures

[herbc]

Since it has been determined in my prior thread, that the Mantle Autographs were most likely false, how about a few more. Starting off with the other signatures on the Mantle multi Sig ball.
His collection has more baseballs and some football, but the other pictures were too blurry to bother with, but I have a strange feeling most of the items would end up the same. He also had baseball cards that were probably purchased from those TV salesmen.
I feel terrible because he's had some this stuff for so long, and proudly displayed. Also, this is my brother, and he's a nice guy. I did hint to him that he should have his items recertified by reputable authenticators. The certificates I saw looked....well you know.
Maybe I should just mind my business....if he is happy I'm happy

Ted Williams, Hank Aaron, Ernie Banks, Frank Robinson, Harmon Killebrew, Willie Mckovey







Not sure who this one's supposed to be


Reggie Jackson, Eddie Mathews


Michael Jordan



Ken Griffey


Can't figure this one..foggy but looks familiar...Cal Ripken?


Nolan Ryan



Muhammad Ali...He got this at auction while on a vacation cruise. Maybe real?







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[Duluth Eskimo]

That ball is the same one you showed in the first photo, a 500 home run ball. All the signatures are bad. For a less trained eye, it is sometimes easier to determine bad signatures on these when you examine the lesser collected signatures as the forgers spent less time trying to sign those. I have no opinion on some of the other newer ones, but it appears the Jordan's and Ali are bad as well. He probably got them all from the same source which was very common. Sorry for the bad news, but I think you know enough from your suspicions.

[7nohitter]

FWIW, the Ryan looks good.

The signature you couldn't identify is supposed to be Mike Schmidt

[T20Brew]

As said the first 8 pictures are of a 500 HR ball. All bad. It's interesting how some are worse attempts than others. To me the Robinson is really bad.
I don't care for the Jordan either.
The Griffey may be okay, but I'll hold off a solid judgment for a better picture.
The blurry one is supposed to be an early Hideo Nomo I believe. It's really blurry so I won't give an opinion on that one. Just FYI, Nomo was highly forged when he first came to the league.
Ryan may be okay but tough to say for sure when it's blurry.
I am not an Ali expert. I'll let someone with more knowledge of his signature chime in on that one.

Looks like many of these may have been obtained early-mid 90's.