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toyman55
03-27-2014, 10:17 AM
The first ball I have is a 1996 all star ball.
picture 1. is Bobby Tolan but the other I am not sure of.
Picture 2. has George Foster on bottom, not sure of the ones above.
picture 3. has Reggie Smith on bottom, again not sure of the ones above.
picture 4 has Jerry Reuss but the others I need help on.
The sweet spot has Luis Aparicio on it.

The second ball I have is a old Washington Senators ball and in poor condition.
I bought a few balls like this when I first started collecting in 1997 and some were not good choices. I have a Twins ball and a A's ball I am going to need help on as well. I do appreciate all everyone here does. I am planning on selling a few of these on Ebay soon.

On the Senators ball,
Picture 1 I know has Early Wynn, the other two ?
Picture 2 has Stan Spence the other 2 ?
picture 3 is Rick Ferrell and one unknown
picture 4 is too light to guess
picture 5 unknown and hard to read
picture 6 sweet spot two unknowns

Thanks Again,
Shale

Michael B
03-27-2014, 10:48 AM
First picture - #### Robertson
Second picture - Tommy John on top
Third picture - Billy Sample above Reggie Smith
Fourth picture - middle two are Fritz Peterson and Jerry Reuss


Senators - Probably 1944 based on the signatures-
Harlond Clift above Early Wynn - last year 1945, Wynn had military service in 1945. Clift - 8g 1943, 12g 1944
Mickey Haefner below Spence. Preston Gomez below that. Gomez 8g in majors all in 1944 with Wash.
Johnny Niggeling above Ferrell. Probably scarce died in 1963.

Looks like George Uhle as top signature on the sweet spot.

You could narrow as to when it was signed based on when Gomez and Clift were with the team as they played so few games. If you could identify Oliveiro 'Baby' Ortiz it would help even more as he only played 2 games in the majors both in 1944 and died in Cuba 1984.

MooseDog
03-27-2014, 02:52 PM
The 1996 All-Star must be an old-timers game.

1- Bobby Tolan
???

2- Tommy John
Gary Peters
George Foster

3-Bill Robinson
Billy Sample
Reggie Smith

4- ?
Fritz Peterson
Jerry Reuss
Ed Whitson

5- Harlan Clift
Early Wynn
Clyde Milan

6- Stan Spence
Mickey Haeffner
Preston Gomez

7- John Niggleling
Rick Ferrell

Other two just too faded to make out as is. You can try playing with the contrast sometimes the sigs pop out of the background.
Ossie Bleuge last one on the last pic.