We get inquiries about these stamped balls all the time at Heritage. I always tell people the same thing (often they call on the phone and just describe the ball). The stamped balls have two things in common. The signatures are placed east to west at the top and the bottom of the two "figure 8" shaped pieces of leather that make up the ball, and then north and south in between (except for the sweet spot) and, if you were to remove all of the "signatures" from the ball, it would be blank. You basically never seen hand signed baseballs without some form of manufacturer's stamping.
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