Babe Ruth opinions?

[Jaymz023]

if its traced, does that ruin it as far as value and authenticity?

[packs]

Yes. A traced ball would carry some value to some people but it would be a fraction of what an untraced ball would sell for.

[Bpm0014]

Now that I've seen the Gehrig....it is not traced.

[packs]

Have no idea what happens on an old baseball but usually if you buy old paper to produce a forged cut, new ink will always bleed into the old paper.

[ATP]

Just a heads up (though I'm sure most already know this), but there are some very real looking Ruth reproduction baseballs out there. They look fine from scans obviously but are just printed on signatures. They are very deceiving from just a photo because the signature looks as it should, but it's not. There are ones with Ruth and Gehrig like this one. With enough digging you can usually turn them up and make sure it's not a match for one. They always looks a little weird in the ink coloring as well. Short of finding an exact match of the signatures it's hard to tell without seeing them in person.

[Sophiedog]

Jeff is 100% Correct! The made up balls look just like the ball in this thread.

[bravos4evr]

That ball looks printed to me.