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Interest in your opinion on adding signatures to vintage team balls

I am curious as to what the community feels about adding signatures to older baseballs. For example, I have a 1961 Yankees Team ball, and I recently had Bob Turley re-sign it because his original signature from 50 years ago was almost totally faded.

I have another situation where I have a 1971 NL All Star ball with some great sigs, but missing Aaron, Mays, McCovey, Bench. If I add these sigs with their current style, how does it affect the value of the ball?

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Permalink Reply by Mike P on April 25, 2012 at 4:40pm

In my opinion, a signature is a signature. The same person is signing it, just at a later date. To be honest, I'd rather have a fully signed ball than one missing 1-2 players if I was a buyer. If anything, it should increase the value of the piece as a whole. Plus, Mays, Aaron, and Bench (not sure about McCovey) are fairly easy signatures to obtain; even their older sigs on older baseballs are only $50-100 more than a recent sig on a snow white ball. Just my two cents, good luck!

-Mike

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Permalink Reply by terrier8HOF on April 25, 2012 at 6:11pm

thanks for your opinions! it took me 10 years to decide to add Turley to my '61 yankee ball. the space where his signature "was" bugged me. but the story is even better, I wrote to him, asking him when he would be in NJ and I sent him photos of the ball. He wrote back, gave me his phone number and asked me to call him. I ended up meeting him at a show, and he signed the ball. it actually looks really cool, there are a few blue ink sigs and he signed in blue so it actually made the ball come to life a bit.

The NL ball concerns me, but I will probably try to add some of the keys as they come to town. It bugs me when signatures are missing, so I might as well fill the void!