Need help to ID this 1942 baseball autograph!

[muggsy]

I thought/think it has to be -ixly, -ixley, -uxly, -uxley or maybe it's not an x, it's a y or j or ?

As for Priddy, I just can't see it. What's the big slash?

That's how I feel. But I'm not someone who IDs these, and you might be.

[Steve D]

Originally Posted by muggsy

It has to be -ixly, -ixley, -uxly, -uxley, right?

To me, it's either ixly or ixley. Just don't know if the first letter is a P or an R. The little crescent thingy in the first letter's loop, to me, is the dot over the i.


Steve

[muggsy]

Originally Posted by Steve D

To me, it's either ixly or ixley. Just don't know if the first letter is a P or an R. The little crescent thingy in the first letter's loop, to me, is the dot over the i.


Steve

That's what I see it as too. But I couldn't find any players that matched.

[Steve D]

The most likely to me, is the second one I mentioned, Gordon Pixley. I just haven't found a match. Like the other one, Benjamin Rixey, I found Pixley's marriage license/certificate from 1938 on ancestry.com, but am inconclusive on it being a match.


Steve

[muggsy]

Gordon Pixley does make sense considering the circumstances as well. There's a good chance he would have been with PHI in ST in 1942, and never played again. It might be the first and last Pixley autograph. lol

What would be fun, is if we could find where he went and what happened with him after baseball. Eventually, we could ask him, if he's still living at 98. lol

[Steve D]

Originally Posted by muggsy

Gordon Pixley does make sense considering the circumstances as well. There's a good chance he would have been with PHI in ST in 1942, and never played again. It might be the first and last Pixley autograph. lol

What would be fun, is if we could find where he went and what happened with him after baseball. Eventually, we could ask him. lol

Unfortunately, he died in 1989 (he was born in 1916). It appears he lived his entire life in/around Elkhart, Indiana, except for his time in pro baseball, and probably the military.

Steve

[muggsy]

Yeah, I see now that the baseball pitcher, was from Elkhart. It would be the same one.

These from 1941:

Gordon Pixley, Elkhart baseball pitcher who set. a record of 27 mound victories last summer as a member of the Lake Charles (La.) team of the Evangeline League, today received a contract from the Phillies asking him to report next week at Miami Beach, Fla. Dale Atwater, local infielder, has been instructed to report to the Columbus American Association club's ramp next month at Hollywood, Fla.

The acquisition of another right handed pitcher was announced. His name is Gordon Pixley, an Elkhart, Indiana, youth, who comes to the Phillies from the Lake Charles Club of the Evangeline League. The deal was made by Doc Prothro from his Memphis home, and has been approved by President Gerry Nugent. Pixley costs the Phillies an unannounced cash emolument and a player whose name will be disclosed later. WON 26 GAMES Pixley, who is 22 years old. six feet, two inches in height and beams at 195, was the property of the Meridian Club of the Southeast League, which had him farmed out to Lake Philadelphia's own expert, Otto Reiselt. Later he also dropped the evening match to Reiselt at Allinger's.

So we found Gordon Pixley. Now if it's his signature...

[muggsy]

Steve, now you should find his kin and ask if they want to see a signature that we think could be their father/grandfather's. Or is that passing boundaries? We still have no certainty this autograph is his anyway.

So I'm hoping for more ideas. Piddy, Pixley, or other suggestions or confirmations?