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Could someone please try to identify the names of the players on these baseballs and also the worth?


These are the baseballs ^
These balls are from two Red Sox players and were signed during about 2010-2015, i'm not 100% sure.
I figured out by researching that one of them is from a Japanese player called Daisuke Matsuzaka(the one on the right in the image), but the other signature I have no clue, but they were on the Red Sox team at some point like I mentioned.

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  • dallasactuarydallasactuary Posts: 4,317 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I thought it looked more like C. L. There was a Chinese player named Che-Hsuan Lin who played for the Sox very briefly in 2012. If that's his signature then I can't imagine that ball has any value. The other one possibly maybe does. Matsuzaka was a flash-in-the-pan who pitched really well in a single season (2008). But (see "Catfish" Hunter), players who have nicknames that get well-known are remembered as much better than they really were, so maybe there's people out there who think "Dice-K" was a great pitcher and would pay something for that ball.

    This is for you @thisistheshow - Jim Rice was actually a pretty good player.

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  • TabeTabe Posts: 6,060 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Left looks like C---- C------ to me so maybe Carl Crawford, Chris Capuano, or Chris Carpenter?

  • craig44craig44 Posts: 11,231 ✭✭✭✭✭

    dicek was so frustrating to watch. he would never ever ever pitch to contact and was constantly getting into high pitch counts. 110 by the 5th was very common.

    George Brett, Roger Clemens and Tommy Brady.

  • @Tabe said:
    Left looks like C---- C------ to me so maybe Carl Crawford, Chris Capuano, or Chris Carpenter?

    I have already searched up their signatures and they don't look similar.

  • I searched it up and it said that he was retiring after the 2021 season. Do you think that the ball would be worth more next year after he stops playing for the Saitama Seibu Lions(a Japanese team)?

  • swish54swish54 Posts: 699 ✭✭✭✭

    The ball on the left looks like a foreign player signing in his native language to me.

  • GreenSneakersGreenSneakers Posts: 908 ✭✭✭✭

    I was at Dice Ks first start at Fenway. It was as electric as a Pedro start. Alas, it didn’t stay that way. It was gone in like the third inning.

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