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Help me find Joe DiMaggio

TheMickTheMick Posts: 217 ✭✭✭
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I was given a signed ball by my father-in-law a couple of years ago. I put it in a box and it sat in the closet for the last couple of years and I just pulled it out. My father-in-law was born in 1926 and he was about 14 or 15 when he got this ball. The story goes like this. He was with his father at a hotel in Cleveland and found out that the New York Yankees were staying at the same hotel. He didn't have the nerve to ask for autographs so the maid got this for him. He has no idea where the ball came from. Obviously, the maid didn't run out and buy one so I assume that one of the players had a ball handy. So this ball is now about 75 years old and has faded with time. I can read some of the signatures like the one of Phil Rizzuto. I'm having a hard time with many of the others. See what signatures you can identify. Unfortunately, I don't think there is a Joe DiMaggio on this ball.







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  • BLUEJAYWAYBLUEJAYWAY Posts: 9,489 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November 30, 2016 7:36PM

    Obvious one Phil Rizzuto. I see a Frank Crossetti.

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  • shagrotn77shagrotn77 Posts: 5,607 ✭✭✭✭

    This should help:

    baseball-reference.com/teams/NYY/1940.shtml

    "My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. Our childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When we were insolent we were placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds - pretty standard really."
  • shagrotn77shagrotn77 Posts: 5,607 ✭✭✭✭

    In addition to Rizzuto and Crow, I can also make out Keller, Chandler and Russo. You can try some other years around that time too.

    "My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. Our childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When we were insolent we were placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds - pretty standard really."
  • TheMickTheMick Posts: 217 ✭✭✭

    Thanks for the help. I've been looking at the roster list because I don't know most of these players. I've found Frenchy Bordagaray, Phil Rizzuto, Lefty Gomez, Jerry Priddy, Marius Russo (signed as M. Russo), Joe McCarthy (very faded in 2nd picture), Frank Crosetti, John Sturm, and Charley Stanceu (signed as C. Stanceu) so far.

  • TheMickTheMick Posts: 217 ✭✭✭

    @shagrotn77 said:
    In addition to Rizzuto and Crow, I can also make out Keller, Chandler and Russo. You can try some other years around that time too.

    I see Chandler now. First name looked like Spring. That's what threw me off. It's Spud Chandler.

  • TheMickTheMick Posts: 217 ✭✭✭

    Just figured Spud Chandler out. His real name is Spurgeon Chandler. He signed as Spurg Chandler.

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