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Originally Posted by Snapolit1
I'm not debating any of the conclusions above, and am not an autograph expert of any kind, but it's always odd to me that people talk like there is only one type of Ruth signature that is legit. As to Ruth or anyone else, isn't it far more likely that signatures can change a significant amount from when someone is 20 years old to 40? I think of myself. I see signatures from 25 years ago and they really don't look a lot like my scribble today. And aren't there going to be examples where someone signed something quickly or maybe reached up into the stands to sign something or was walking down a street and their signature will look lousy just because of the circumstances. Just has always seemed really peculiar that people are confident enough to quickly view a signature and say it's off.
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^This^
Just like Mantle... everyone always talks about the "slanted t" which seems to show up only about half the time.
The truth is a TPA's guess is probably the same or even below the opinions of most of the people on here.
As for the Ruth, my gut feeling is no. I don't like the second "b" in Babe, but as mentioned above it could be debatable for sure.