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Permalink Reply by DELVIN R BERG on June 4, 2017 at 9:10pm

Here are the other photos.  I also have a question as to how the baseballs are mounted in the shadowbox.  Thanks in advance for any replies.

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Permalink Reply by Robin Banks on June 4, 2017 at 9:24pm

Hi Delvin,
In my opinion these were all signed very slowly. Pen flow doesn't seem correct. Another way to find out about your Reagan is to pull the baseball off the shadow box and look at the baseball stamp and can you tell us who the commissioner is ?

Permalink Reply by DELVIN R BERG on June 4, 2017 at 10:30pm

The baseballs aren't mine, so I don't have access to the shadowbox.  But the Carter and Ford look good to me.  I think even the Bush looks OK.  Its the Reagan I was concerned about.

I've had Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter sign 3 baseballs each at book signings.  I still have a singled signed from both and a dual-signed.  But I think the Carter signature looks good from the '90s book signings.  And the Ford looks right, too.  Anything that Carter signed after the late '90's isn't for me.  I think they're too easy to forge.  But the signatures all look fluid to me.  I don't see where they were signed slow.  The only thing that has me apprehensive about pulling the trigger is the Reagan baseball.  If that's not good, then it really doesn't matter whether the other 3 are good.

Permalink Reply by DELVIN R BERG on June 4, 2017 at 10:37pm

The reason I like the Gerald Ford is because of the "r" in "Gerald" and the "r and d" in "Ford".  And I've got almost a dozen Carter autographs (from 8 different book signings) that the baseball just looks good to me.  But I could be wrong.  Again, its the Reagan that concerns me.  I may do a PSA quick opinion on the Reagan and see what they say.

Permalink Reply by Paulrichards on June 8, 2017 at 5:07am

They could all be ok but personally the only one I feel sure about is Carter

Permalink Reply by Invest_In_Graphs on June 20, 2017 at 12:58am

1. None of the balls are right.

2. Unless it was in the 1980s or earlier, Gerald Ford never did a book signing.