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05-30-2015, 11:58 AM
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Can't say if this signature is real or not -
The scholarship goes back and forth on whether he was born Grove or Groves. I think the most recent book has his birth name with the "s" and his relatives used that spelling as well. He did go by "Groves" when he was with the Baltimore Orioles beginning in 1920. If you read the newspapers from the time or look in the Spalding Guides it has the "s" spelling. The super-rare 1921 Tip Top Bread card has it as "Groves". Sportswriters left off the "s" so many times it just officially became his accepted name sometime before he joined the Athletics. As late as 1927 he was still referred to as "Groves". 
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