Ichiro Autographs

[packs]

I could be persuaded to part with this Japanese rookie. PM me if interested:

[shelly]

It still looks like garbage

[theshleps]

the rookie card posted is a contemporary autograph, not an early one, great card tho

[Runscott]

With Ichiro, the best way to become proficient at recognizing his autograph is to start by studying images of the ones from his first year. Correlate each letter to the letters in his name. It will take a while, but once you can do it, you'll be able to start seeing the transitions of the letters over time. Then you can decide which ones were a hurried mess, and which ones are the better, less hurried examples.

Quick good story. I needed an Ichiro-signed baseball for a display, so I went through the above for a while, then picked out a couple of decent Ichiro-signed balls to put offers on (on ebay). I stopped by an antique mall in Seattle, looking for other stuff, and bam - rookie-year Ichiro-signed baseball for $9.00. It had only four signatures, and the four only played together Ichiro's rookie year. Not the best, but a deal, and it's readable.

So it happens, just not often.

[shelly]

that is much nicer

[prestigecollectibles]

This is an Ichiro rookie year photo signed in Japan about 1996.