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Originally Posted by David Atkatz
As a member of the "Scribbles crowd, I'll try. Mr. Webb is the pre-war exception, rather than the rule. And, in all fairness to him, at least he wrote "Dell Webb" when signing his name, and not simply, say, a semicircle with a line through it. He just had the bad habit of not moving his pen from left-to-right while writing them.
When was the last time someone posted a picture of a pre-war signature in his collection while asking for help deciphering it?
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I think it says something that you can go to Bobby Doerr, who is almost 97 and in failing health, have him sign something today, and his signature is still more legible than 99% of the modern players I have in my collection. I used to go to the Futures at Fenway doubleheader and get autographs there, and if the player didn't add his number, then I'd be clueless as to who it was. One of the reasons I stopped going (and what drove me out of the hobby for a few years) is it just wasn't fun anymore, spending all that time getting signatures that needed all that additional deciphering work.