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BASEBALL BAT
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BASEBALL AUTOGRAPH IDENTIFICATION GUIDE |
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| Baseball Autograph
Identification Guide Index |
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Select the first letter of the suspected first name or last name
- or # (number) of the
player you are looking for
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| Tips on Identifying Illegible
Autographs. |
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If
you can identify a letter at the beginning of a name,
visit the Autograph Identification Help Guide. The
autographs are listed in Alphabetical order. Each page
features both First and Last names of players starting
with the specific letter, plus Uniform numbers.
If you can't find the autograph in the guide's database, try Sportsfy.com,
where you can easily
Search for players, by the first letter of their
last name or the first letter of their first name, who
played between the 1945 and 2021 seasons. Then you can
do a Google Search for suspected players, using "Image
Results."
Uniform Numbers - Some players do inscribe their uniform
number with the autograph. This can be a useful tool.
Visit the
Autograph Numbers # Search in this Guide.
If you can't find it in the guide and you can't make out any of the letters, it would
be a tough, tedious and time consuming task to find the
player.
If you know the team, the beginning letters of the first or and last name
it will be a little easier. If the number is in
question, it will add to your research time. Baseball-Reference.com has a
great
Uniform Search resource
where you could find all
players to wear a particular
number, listed in alphabetical
order, and can be narrowed down
by years, and team.
Autographs with inscriptions can quicken your quest.
Inscriptions that include dated player milestones are a
breeze. Examples: "HOF '73" - Cy Young NL 1995 - Triple
Crown '67" - ROY (Rookie Of The Year) - GG (Gold Glove
award) "No Hitter with full date" career stats, etc...
A Player might add a nickname to his autograph. Lee Mazzilli "The Italian
stallion" - Don Mattingly
"Hit Man" - Andre Dawson "The
Hawk" - Ernie Banks "Mr. Cub"
and so on... Willie Mays often
signs "Say Hey" or "Say Hey
Kid" -
Baseball-Reference.com also has
a list of
major and minor league
nicknames, that might
help you identify your
autograph.
Some players add Christian Bible verses. This could be useful, but there
are a number of players that do it. If you search
"autograph baseball" with the Bible verse such as "John
3:16" you might find the player that signed the
baseball. There are also players that are known to add
smiley faces. :-)
There are autographs that have no hope of Identifying. Autographs that
resemble a toddler's Crayon scribbling on a wall. No
clues, no letters that are legible, or inscription. A
total mess that can only be identified by a collector
that is familiar with the signature. This is why I
created a facebook group dedicated to to help identify
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Members of the facebook group named
"Baseball Autograph Signature
Identification Help,"
can post signed items for other
members, and seasoned
collectors to help identify. (not to
authenticate) Autographs that
have been identified will then be
added to a running database on
KeyMan Collectibles to help
others with their research.
For the scribbled autographs where there are no letters that are legible,
you can browse through the
"Totally Illegible Page" This is where
posting to the facebook group truly helps. If
you "don't do facebook" try the
KeyMan Collectibles Forum.
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