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Posted By: tbob

Hi Julie, yes that belongs to me. A cut autograph of Matty was pasted on the baseball back in the 'teens. What is really neat about this folk art ball is the ball has a 205 Matty pasted on front but lots of 205s, 206s and 207s pasted in the other areas, overlapping but still having great eye appeal. I bought this in a Robert Edwards auction a long time ago. In the same auction were the other balls the creator "made" with cut sigs and cards pasted over the ball. I seem to remember the other 3 or 4 were also HOFers, Evers possibly, maybe Speaker, can't remember the rest. The balls went for around $750-1000 each which at the same time seemed like a lot of money but Matty is my guy so I took the plunge.
The ball looks much more beautiful than the scan, I plopped it in an old scanner to try and get a decent image.