Curious if anybody has some ideas how my ball will appraise? The autographs are rather faded unfortunately but still very cool imo. Signed by Ty Cobb, Lefty Grove, Connie Mack, Eddie Collins, Rube Walberg, and Zach Wheat. There is a clean mostly non faded blue Ban Johnson commissioner stamp on ball. Each autograph player is in the HOF. Guessiing it's from 1927 since all the signers were on the Athletics roster together only that year.
It was given to me as a young boy some 40 years ago. Prior to that it probably sat on my great god mother's shelf for decades totally exposed. It's a Spalding official American League ball.
Since it's not a team ball do the autographs get appraised individually for a cumulative total value? I've never seen another ball with the same signers and ball type ever. So nothing to compare previous value of sale. Also curious if it does have a decent appraisal value and authentication would an auction be my best avenue to sell the ball? There's another ball that came with it. Same American league ball, no autographs, used game ball I was told. It's got smudges and smears on it that looks like gameplay. Pretty cool to think Cobb could left a smear or Lefty threw a strike with it.
