I doubt that all of those souvenir balls were actually rubber stamped. More likely the autographs were affixed on the two individual panels by some sort of printing process. then stitched together. You notice on some of these the autograph overlaps the seam but there is no ink on the seam. Whatever the process was could have created the issue.
I kinda agree with BillyCox that it might be Ken Johnson, mangled.
Suppose if you could find another 1962 souvenir ball you'd have your answer.
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