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Jeff SRhys mentioned several posts ago that for piece of mind in buying a Ruth signature, one should buy a bank check or a team ball.
I understand the bank check argument. (Though I would suppose that doesn't hold for ~all~ celebrities, as many surely allowed their wives and perhaps others to sign checks for them.)
But aren't there quite a number of Yankees team balls with Ruth "clubhouse signatures" on them? I seem to recall one on eBay not too long ago with authentic signatures of several others, but what the seller identified as a clubhouse sig of Ruth.
I had thought this was common knowledge, but I'm not as knowledgeable as Rhys on this sort of thing, so I'm curious if he can shed more light on this for me.