Interesting take on the modern autograph

[Deertick]

Originally Posted by isaac2004

He makes a good point about the signature readability nowadays, but its a bit silly for him to talk about integrity of getting autos given the stories above.

Obviously his opinions have changed over time since the mid 80s. He told me the same thing about "the little kids" and the dealers (and it was obvious) when I asked him to PLEASE not smudge his signature! I had three others that each had a distinct thumb-rub, and he told me he did that to retard resale. He smudged that one, but the next time he obliged me after I told him I gave the others away, which was true.

The timeframe above for reference is 5 balls for 20 attempts at the ballpark after games.

[Cfern023]

My signature looks way too ugly, anyone know where I can go to relearn how to properly write in cursive, I'd love to learn to write my name in such a loopy way as Pete Rose or Mike Schmidt. Right now Mine is C---S F-----Z

[steve B]

Just grab a pen and start making lines of loops. Try to get them all the same height, roundness and spacing.

At least that's what they made us do in penmanship class. I really didn't help me any, but the freehand lettering in drafting class did.

Steve B

[Cfern023]

Originally Posted by steve B

Just grab a pen and start making lines of loops. Try to get them all the same height, roundness and spacing.

At least that's what they made us do in penmanship class. I really didn't help me any, but the freehand lettering in drafting class did.

Steve B

Thanks for the advice- I guess I'll start.

When in elementary, the teacher gave us a test on writing our own names in cursive. It was 1997, and I had an Alex Fernandez Florida marlins cap with his facsimile signature on the side.

Got an a on that test and another a on the next one.

I failed when I finally wrote Alex instead of Chris.

To this day it still has the same last name portion, but I'm ashamed of it.

I have a sharpie here- anyone want to send me a baseball and I'll return it with 20 Babe Ruth sigs in the process.