View Full Version : 1987 A's ball: help identifying a couple autographs
JMEnglish27
05-31-2016, 11:08 PM
Picked up a 1987 A's spring training ball. Can anyone identify the third autograph down on the first pic, and the top 2 on the second pic? Thanks for your help!
JMEnglish27
05-31-2016, 11:11 PM
Picture 2
MooseDog
06-01-2016, 07:39 AM
The 2nd one in the 2nd pic looks vaguely like a rushed Dwayne Murphy. Above that you might make a case for Carney Lansford but my first instinct is no.
You can't assume that the signatures are from players who made the show. The one clear autograph in the first picture reads to me as Tim Birton or Binton. The 1987 A's only had one player on the major league roster with the initials TB, and that signature does not belong to Tony Bernazard. Identifying the signatures on the ball without knowing which players were in the A's camp that year might prove difficult.
JMEnglish27
06-01-2016, 04:10 PM
You can't assume that the signatures are from players who made the show. The one clear autograph in the first picture reads to me as Tim Birton or Binton. The 1987 A's only had one player on the major league roster with the initials TB, and that signature does not belong to Tony Bernazard. Identifying the signatures on the ball without knowing which players were in the A's camp that year might prove difficult.
Tim Birtsas is that one, and Carney appears elsewhere on the ball.
The rest on there are pretty clear...I'm only confused by the 3rd one down on pic 1 and the top 1 now on pic 2...I agree that is a rushed Dwayne Murphy.
JMEnglish27
06-01-2016, 04:15 PM
I actually contemplated that third one down on pic 1 being two signatures...one on right being a squeezed Canseco, and something to the left being very small. Here's a better pic...
JMEnglish27
06-01-2016, 04:17 PM
These ones...
Tripredacus
06-02-2016, 10:24 AM
Perhaps also Tony Phillips? :confused:
JMEnglish27
06-02-2016, 10:52 AM
Perhaps also Tony Phillips? :confused:
Yeah...I'm just not sure! It's a really cool ball for me as an A's fan, this was right when I was getting into baseball as a kid, and Reggie Jackson was back (he's on here...not a great Reggie signature but I didnt have one) and Ron Cey as well for the 5 minutes he was an A. Plus the fabled Rob Nelson, who lost his job to McGwire when he emerged.