Some advice needed about Musial's signature

[almostdone]

I am not an autograph collector but I am a huge fan of Stan Musial and I just reciently found out that you can send in an item for him to sign personally and get it back. The cost runs a bit high bit I have a cool vintage Musial item that I thought would look great in a display.

When I was just looking around ebay to see what else (besides cards) he has signed I noticed that his classic signature is, let's say, less to be desired. I know he is aging and must be becomeing taxing but I havn't heard of any major issue with him.

Even up until last years stuff his signiture remained basically the same.
I don't want to sound selfish but I am a bit hesitant on sending in my item to be signed and putting up that kind of money. I don't much in the way of a collectible budget so this would be huge for me.

Any advise for you guys who deal with this stuff?

Drew

BTW the piece is a vinal record called "Stan the Man's Hit Record". It isn't worth much on its own but it is in excellent shape and the colors are still like new