Request: Lou Gehrig signature example
 

Fellow collectors, I come to you with a request. Does anyone have a circa 1922 example of a Lou Gehrig signature? I would also like to see any authentic examples between 1922 and 1929, preferably on a flat. Thanks for your assistance. If you don't want to share a scan publicly, feel free to send me an email to mschwade at gmail.

Thanks!
Matt

A nice one from 1925.

Lou has a really nice signature.

I've come around 180 degrees on this...the pre-war guys, on average, just have much nicer sigs that modern dudes.

Lou's is one of the best.

Also partial to Charley Gehringer. His sig is almost a work of art.

Thanks Richard! Would still like to see any other examples that fall between the 22-29 timeframe. Thanks!

I would go to Hunt Auctions. They have all prior auctions listed. There are quite a few Gehrig's listed from every year he played.

WOW! :eek:

Agreed.. the best way to do it is go to final prices/past auctions of the major memorabilia auction houses to come up with examples. Legendary's site I find the easiest to navigate where Heritage and Leland is not to obad.. not as bad as Hunts. Hunt has great past items but their website/search engine could use some work to say the least.

Ben

Here are two from 1927 - don't ask me why they look so different

Scott... you're fixated on that ball, man. Ya gotta get over it!

That's where my spreadsheet comes in :)

1927 version on a ball.

http://i694.photobucket.com/albums/v...at/Panel2.jpeg

He has convinced me :D:D.

1929. (And... what's that? He's signed with... WHAT? GREEN INK?)

http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j2...ps97fa8278.jpg

It's faded, but on this 1923 ball, right under Ernie Johnson, is a rookie Gehrig.

http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j2...3oalgehrig.jpg

A thirteen-year-old Gehrig, 1917.

http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j2...tz/124a_lg.jpg

David.. I lost this in paragon awhile back. I couldn't find any exemplars to support it so I was conservative in my bidding. Did you win it by chance? There has been another around tge same era that came out since that I believe i was underbidder on in heritage. It was too rich for my blood. It was damn near identical to this one do I believe they are legit. Whoever won this did very well IMO.

It wasn't me, Ben. I own the first two I posted, but not the third.

Interesting. Now that I see the one from the green ink ball, I finally see it.

Could you please post a Lazzeri signature in green ink, so that it will look real too?

Ahh.. Well those aren't too shabby either;)

Hey, Scott. Why don't you post an over-under comparison of the '27 Gehrig on cottnat's ball with the green '29?
They won't look that similar either.

(But they're both good.)

David, I'm not trying to be a wise @ss (any more than anyone else is), but I think that ball still has a lot of mileage left.

"I never did get over Earl not asking me to sign his ball. I even had my own green ink pen ready, as I wanted to save it as a souvenir to remember him by. Heck, he even got the back-up catchers to sign, and I know for a fact he didn't get along with Grabowski. After everyone else had signed, Earl walked over to me and held out the ball with the sweet spot showing - 'Hey Ray - would you mind writing the positions on this thing for me - I can't remember if I play LF or CF and the game's about to start.' I kept that ball in my underwear for the entire game.

Funny stuff :D:D.

JimStinson
 

Lou Gehrig 1929 Yankees team sheet & 1938 Players contract, contrast the difference in a 10 year span. Note too the Jacob Ruppert on the contract is proxy signed by Ed Barrow
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I feel Lou Gehrig has one of the most beautiful autographs ever in baseball. So simple and flowing, like Babe, Joe D and Mickey were.

Isn't it amazing how beautiful signatures were back then, compared to the BS Child like scribbling so many of today's guys call a "signature". Just another reason I LOVE THE OLD BASEBALL STUFF AND ITS PLAYERS

Just slightly OT,,, I don't deal in or collect modern Hollywood but the scribbles of baseball players look beautiful in comparison to the scribbles of today's film stars. And those scribbles are a forgers paradise from what I have been told.

JimStinson
 

And to make matters worse with contemporary ball players you have the scribbled signature and the scribbled "Get the hell away from me" signature. And using a side by side comparision its nearly impossible to believe the same person signed them
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