Del Webb?

[earlywynnfan]

Sorry, can't seem to find an example of Del's sig. Is this it, or is it some Beth Webb?

[prewarsports]

That is not the way Del Webb signed documents or anything I have ever seen. Disclosure though, I have never seen a signed ball and sometimes people did print on that format, but usually not this late.

Rhys

[Klrdds]

Here is the Del Webb from my collection. As you can see his signature is very unusual and distinctive. This is the signature he used for flat items. I do not know what his signature on a baseball would look like except to say that I have never seen his signature on a ball, and it seems to me that his signature as it is on flat items would be hard to do on a baseball. The spelling on your ball looks to be Dell not Del if I am not mistaken. but remember printed names instead of cursive signatures have been used on balls since people started signing balls. I am sorry I have no opinion on the Webb's authenticity on your ball.

[dgo71]

Yikes. I know it was a rarity for guys to have sloppy signatures in those days but that's as awful an autograph as I've seen.

[earlywynnfan]

Thanks for the replies. It's really hard to tell where the "L" (or "LL") in Del ends and where the Y in Casey takes over.

I agree that Webb's regular sig is atrocious; I really hope the "Scribbles" crowd can jump in and show us how those old-timers had such better writing than current guys!

[canjond]

FWIW, I have a Del Webb on a Yankees signed ball and it's almost identical to the ball posted above. It's a printed signature that looks like a 5 year old wrote it. I'll try to post scans tonight.

[David Atkatz]

Originally Posted by earlywynnfan

Thanks for the replies. It's really hard to tell where the "L" (or "LL") in Del ends and where the Y in Casey takes over.

I agree that Webb's regular sig is atrocious; I really hope the "Scribbles" crowd can jump in and show us how those old-timers had such better writing than current guys!

As a member of the "Scribbles crowd, I'll try. Mr. Webb is the pre-war exception, rather than the rule. And, in all fairness to him, at least he wrote "Dell Webb" when signing his name, and not simply, say, a semicircle with a line through it. He just had the bad habit of not moving his pen from left-to-right while writing them.

When was the last time someone posted a picture of a pre-war signature in his collection while asking for help deciphering it?