Vintage Mickey Mantle signed ball help
 

Need some help on this one - sorry for the sideway photos ..
Matt

Inscription

Any input would be appreciated. Thanks
Matt

This is a tough one. On the one hand, the inscription looks very possible, but the autograph looks off. It may be real, but I wouldn't be comfortable buying it.

The inscription also looks bad to me, but it could be '60s if anything.

Curious what David has to say on this one.

Thanks.. Any other opinions appreciated
Matt

This is an interesting one one and not what we are used to seeing as much with The Mick, which is probably the reason why not a lot of responses. I think the age looks right for being vintage signed, and there are a couple distinct traits to the signature that I am going to say it's authentic if I had to go one way or another. I don't think it is a forgery and I see a couple things in the inscription that are common to his other writing, but it looks a little shaky at parts (then again, it is a really long inscription and writing on a baseball is never easy).

Just a bad forgery.