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Need Help ID Of 1957/1958 Yankee Team Signed Baseball

ricardounoricardouno Posts: 244 ✭✭
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I have a baseball signed by members of the New York Yankees baseball team.

All of the many identifiable signatures are players on both the rosters of the 1957 AND 1958 teams. The only signature which I cannot identify is a signature which is faded and lies beneath a white scuffed area of the ball ( the whitish area in the photos is a scuff and not glare from lighting ).

I believe that this presently unidentifiable signature may belong to Johnny James ( John Philip James ) who pitched in only one game in 1958 for the Yankees...........he did not play on the team in 1957. Therefore, if this is indeed James' signature, then the ball would be from 1958 rather than 1957.

As I do not have a comparison ball signed Johnny James signature, and the signature is not perfectly visible in its entirety, I do not definitely know if this is identifiable on this particular ball as a Johnny James signature.

I am providing several photos ( please see links below ) for your review. In the photos the possible Johnny James signature lies below the Harry Simpson signature and above Elston Howard and is centered in most of the photos provided.

Of course, if you feel that the signature is that of another Yankee from this era ( 1957/1958 ) please so identify.

Thanks so much in advance for any help!!

Ricardo

Images of the ball are below:

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