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PatI recall a Leave it to Beaver episode centered around an autographed 1927 Yankees Baseball. Ward has it on a pedestal in his study and he shows it to Beaver telling him some story how Ward's Dad took Ward into the Yankee dugout and got all the signatures. Beaver and Larry are playing catch and lose their baseball or something but bottom line is they need a ball. Larry convinces Beaver to use the Yankee ball. One of the boys misses the ball and it goes into the street and it is run over by a car and ruined or something along those lines. So the boys don't get in trouble they try to forge the autographs on another baseball that they go out and buy.
Not being too familar with the "old time players" and not being able to read the names very well because the ball has been run over, they botch the names and instead of writing Bob Meusel they write like Bobby Musical or something like that. They put the new ball on the pedestal thinking they have gotten away with getting in trouble.
Later on Ward has a friend over and shows him the ball and the friend laughs at the names and tells Ward that is a good joke. Ward confronts Beaver and the lesson for the episode is acted out.