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Baseball with Mickey Mantle, Billy Martin, Phil Rizzuto and Gil McDougal and rest of team.

I have an old baseball that has an entire team of the NY Yankees with many signatures of many great ball players. How can I tell if this is truly a valuable ball or if it is just a copy. I can add in pictures and this is my first dive into this so let me know what else I can supply that will help to figure out if valuable or not

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  • IronmanfanIronmanfan Posts: 5,477 ✭✭✭✭

    I agree with JBK; these souvenir baseballs are often confused as being hand signed & have limited monetary value....

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  • Bambino1Bambino1 Posts: 138 ✭✭
    edited September 22, 2024 2:04PM

    Typical of these souvenir baseballs is:

    1) The signatures rarely touch. Each one has its own space without overlapping any other signatures

    2) On some of the signatures, the track actually disappears into the stitch hole and reemerges as if the hole was never there. This is because the hide of the ball was plate stamped flat, with all of the signatures, before the hide was stitched onto the ball.

    3) The signatures are proper. For the most part, they are taken from exemplars of genuine autographs. So they will look authentic, but they are facsimiles of real autographs and not facsimiles of forgeries.

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