Monday, May 18, 2015

Off Day Sleuthing

Mamma Cora found this ball in her collection and doesn't know who it was signed by.  I thought it was a Dodger, but looking at who wore number 9 in the past (such greats as Todd Hundley), the signature doesn't match.  Thus, I was hoping for some SOSG help.  Anyone recognize this autograph?

10 comments:

QuadSevens said...

That is an autographed baseball from Jody Gerut. He wore number 9 with the Indians and Cubs. Here's another example of his autograph that I used to verify your pic.

http://tinyurl.com/ljc4xvn

Orel said...

BOOM! One and done. Nice work, 7777!

QuadSevens said...

Thanks Orel. Baseball Reference was a great resource for this one.

QuadSevens said...

BR for the jersey number search, and then google to search for autograph examples.

Alex Cora said...

Thanks QS. That is amazing. You rock!

QuadSevens said...

No problem AC. Happy to help out.

Hideo Nomo said...

I was going to say Judy Garland, but I'm too late.

Fred's Brim said...

I was thinking Jody Reed but he was never 9, and then I thought it might be GAARP who was 9, and that looks like an A to start the last name, then I read Q7777's amazingly quick response, then I thought that there aren't many dudes named Jody anymore

QuadSevens said...

I was looking for "Joey" or "Johnny" with a last name starting with C at first. When those didn't match up, I started looking for other last initials (O, Q, G) that look like a C.

Dusty Baker said...

It wasn't Johnny Ramone?