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zartan917zartan917 Posts: 1 ✭
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cant read the autograph above or below Cesar Cedeno in first picture
looks like "len mathough" on top .. and... "paul rausse" on bottom!!?

or the one below Ed VanDe berg (above f. vanezuela) in the second picture..

or this one at all...

any help is appreciated

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  • jlvette50jlvette50 Posts: 328 ✭✭✭

    In the First Photo:
    Top is Len Matuszek
    Bottom is Bill Russell

    Longoria Collector. Love the Longo!https://psacard.com/psasetregistry/baseball/player-sets/evan-longoria-master-set/alltimeset/90851 600+ PSA Graded 4,700+ unique Longoria cards scanned on TCDB 800+ different Longo autograph cards Jeff

  • mrmoparmrmopar Posts: 1,052 ✭✭✭✭

    Seriously, do people purposefully take the worst pictures possible and then ask for help?

    Take the ball out of the holder and take a better picture. You are literally asking for a signature to be identified that is behind glare created RIGHT ABOVE the signature you want Identified, when you took the signature.

    It appears to be a Dodger ball, circa 1986 (Cedeno's only year in LA). All the sigs shown so far are Dodgers. The other sigs are probably easy if we could actually see them..

    I collect Steve Garvey, Dodgers and signed cards. Collector since 1978.
  • JBKJBK Posts: 15,678 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Keep the ball out of sunlight or fluorescent light. Those sigs are fading away. :/

  • Dodgers13Dodgers13 Posts: 2 ✭

    Can anyone help me with this baseball autograph? Thanks

  • LarkinCollectorLarkinCollector Posts: 8,975 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Mark Grace

    Who is the Golf Card Guy?
  • Dodgers13Dodgers13 Posts: 2 ✭

    Thank you

  • HydrantHydrant Posts: 7,773 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited February 18, 2021 10:17PM

    Autograph collecting has to be the only hobby in which the collector buys an item about which the collector doesn't know what he bought.

  • LarkinCollectorLarkinCollector Posts: 8,975 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Hydrant said:
    Autograph collecting has to be the only hobby in which the collector buys an item about which the collector doesn't know what he bought.

    All of my "unknowns" came from the odds and ends of card collection purchases or multi-signed stuff where I recognized enough that it was worthwhile. Some like to take cheap gambles at resale shops, not my thing, but there have been some decent hits posted over the years.

    Who is the Golf Card Guy?
  • mrmoparmrmopar Posts: 1,052 ✭✭✭✭

    @Hydrant said:
    Autograph collecting has to be the only hobby in which the collector buys an item about which the collector doesn't know what he bought.

    A more likely scenario would be that it was part of a larger bulk lot or someone didn't note who signed the ball originally and has dug it up from the past.

    I have tried to label all of my autographed items for future reference, but then again nearly all of mine were purchased so it won't be me forgetting who signed something for me. I did go back and label all of the autographs I obtained as a kid though, including the multi-signed baseballs, while I still recall.

    There are always going to be select people who will buy mystery signatures, but I suspect they don't pay much and are hoping for a big find. Salvation Army type buys, where it is cheap enough for the gamble as LarkinCollector mentioned.

    I collect Steve Garvey, Dodgers and signed cards. Collector since 1978.
  • sgaskellsgaskell Posts: 1 ✭

    Looking for an autograph ID. This was part of a Goodwill donation that contained several early 2000's era Atlanta Braves baseballs. Thanks in advance.

  • SDSportsFanSDSportsFan Posts: 5,142 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The last ball above is Gary Sheffield.

    Steve

  • HerbieHHerbieH Posts: 21 ✭

    Agree with Steve.

  • hep2ithep2it Posts: 3 ✭

    I've tried, but I can't seem to identify this one.

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