cjspearsdog
04-08-2016, 08:48 PM
Could possibly be a former Minnesota Twin? Or maybe even minor leaguer from Minnesota. please help
cjspearsdog
04-09-2016, 04:13 PM
does the DLPL at the bottom give any clues?
jdunevant
04-09-2016, 04:25 PM
Pretty sure the top one is Gary Rath (99 Twins) and I the 2nd may be Dan Perkins (also on 99 Twins).
cjspearsdog
04-09-2016, 10:05 PM
wow, I have no idea how you figured that out. Gary Rath is spot on. Can't find anything to compare to the bottom one. Thanks a bunch. kinda of stinks that both guys barely played in the majors, but at least I know who it is now.
jdunevant
04-10-2016, 07:18 AM
Well, if you'd really like to know for the future, I did this:
1. The Gary Rath was legible/discernible enough that I initially thought it said Gary Ratt, so I used baseball-reference.com (http://www.baseball-reference.com) and searched on players with that name. No luck, so I searched for those starting with "Gary Ra". Results showed Rath and right time frame, so clicked on him, saw his Twin connection and figured on right path.
2. So i then went to ebay and searched on Gary Rath autos and saw it was a match, so one down
3. Went back to baseball-ref, 99 Twins, and skimmed for someone with initials DP. Found Perkins as a possibility, and then did ebay & google searches. Found very similar in style, I think the Dl is scribbled Daniel and the PL is really Pk.
Again your question was most likely rhetorical but wanted to share baseball-ref as a great research resource.
Jim