Black Sox Memorabilia Up For Auction

[shelly]

Ken, my problem is that a baseball signed by Joe Jackson are not often seen.
Please tell me has there ever been outside of this ball a Joe Jackson signed baseball signed on the sweet spot/ and if so what year.
Every thing I have read about this man says at the time he played for the sox he could hardly write his name, his wife signed for him. It is really hard to believe that he could hold that ball and write his name on the sweet spot when he could not sign a blank piece of paper.
I would be much happier if I new that the ink on that ball was signed at that time. I really don't care about Psa or Jsa. I would like to have a forensic lab test that ball.

[kengoldin]

[QUOTE=shelly;1364743]Ken, my problem is that a baseball signed by Joe Jackson are not often seen.
Please tell me has there ever been outside of this ball a Joe Jackson signed baseball signed on the sweet spot/ and if so what year.

1919 World Series Game Ball Hit for a Home Run By Joe Jackson Autographed on the Sweet Spot By Joe Jackson

$37,203.65
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Robert Edward Auctions
Sold on Jun 9, 1996https://www.pricerealized.com/#!/Ite...By-Joe-Jackson

I would join pricerealized.com as a paying member
that link may not be active to non members, not sure
type in 'joe Jackson signed baseball' you will see plenty of balls, even a bat.
Hunt, REA, Heritage, etc sales back to the 1990s.

To edit this, I just received an email from a baseball historian who specializes in dead ball era signatures. He informed me that one of the 2 'indecipherable' signatures on the ball was Byrd Lynn. I thank him for his info.

[sbfinley]

I have no opinion on the ball's authenticity other then it passed both JSA and PSA. But I've always wondered this: the legend we've all heard was that he was basically incapable of signing his own name without practicing first. Yeah, he was illiterate - but he was also sharp enought to bat .400. Is this myth largely blown out of proportion? He signed both his drivers' licenses and bonds for his brother and was likely asked for his autograph no short of a thousand times in his lifetime. In most instances he likely could have backed out of it, but if he had the mental capacity to hit the way he did, he was probably smart enough to memorize ten letters in order. No?