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Posted By: kevin pope

It seems during the teens and early twenties that there was definitely a lot of players who signed there names on baseballs as if they were printing the letters instead of a typical cursive flow. I have a few examples of signed teamballs from the teens and Jake Daubert, Ed Konetchy, and Grover Cleveland Alexander, along with too many others to name have signed in the fashion that this Jennings ball was apparently signed. I feel that a lot of players signed this way on balls so you could read their names. I also think the Waterman fountain pens of that time were prone to bleeding and leather wasn't the best surface to get a good script signature on it. A more simple version of their signature was then used. Just my theory and with experience collecting team balls from that era.