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Posted By: scgaynor

Shelly, it has been my experience that they list all clubhouse signatures on the LOA. If they only list Mantle, then Mantle is most likely the only clubhouse signature on the ball.

I don't really understand it either, but for some reason "clubhouse" signatures are more acceptable to collectors than "forgeries". If you just call it a forgery, it lumps it in with all of the other crap that you see in SCD or usually on Ebay.

I believe that for most people the word "forgery" connotes some guy sitting at a table scribbling Mickey Mantle's name on 8 x 10'' photos, where as a "clubhouse" Mantle is more acceptable because it was common practice for the era to have the clubhouse attendant sign the names of major stars.

Scott