Need help with sig on baseball

[jtw1313]

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[civil_war22]

OHHH Wow!! You just reminded me of that too! That was during "just say no to Drugs" campaign early to mid 90's ... We had a player come and speak at our High School about how drugs ruined his life etc.....

Sry!! Off topic!! Just remembering things I forgot all about tonight!!

And it does look like D lorenz......But my eyes are playing tricks now and I can make anything out of it now!

I saw D Lorenz as well but the first part has literally eaten me up all day trying to figure it out.

 

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[civil_war22]

BTW mine was signed by Jose Alvarez

 

[can]

pete rose

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

Had my wife look and she comes up with Lowery as last name although I see the last letter as a Z.

 

[DCMatt]

Luis Polonia

I'm guessing from the 1995 Series against the Indians.

DCMatt

 

[Anduril]

Another complication is that the signature could use a nickname, and might not match official baseball league records. (?)

 

[DownNDirty]

Looks like Lowery to me too. L___ D Lowery

 

[Dr. Syn]

Only major league player that I found that was even close was Lefty Lorenzen, but he played in 1913.

One thing too, 1995 spring training, was the year of the baseball strike. Many replacement players were used in place of the actual ones till the strike ended, and many of them used fake names. Most were either sent to the minors or outright canned when the strike ended, so you may have some unknown player, or one using an alias during the strike.

 

[BigWaveDave]

Only major league player that I found that was even close was Lefty Lorenzen, but he played in 1913.

One thing too, 1995 spring training, was the year of the baseball strike. Many replacement players were used in place of the actual ones till the strike ended, and many of them used fake names. Most were either sent to the minors or outright canned when the strike ended, so you may have some unknown player, or one using an alias during the strike.

Good call with the scab player theory...

 

[jupiterhill]

I love the sports ones! It gets me excited.

Anyways, I'm no expert on autographs or signatures, but everyone seemed to think the last name was Lorenz or Lowery and I started there. His first name looks like an L as well at least to me. Long story short, I think I found a possible answer.

Lorenzo Lanier played in the major leagues for Pittsburgh in 1971. While it would seem like a longshot being he played in the National League and not the American League as the baseball is designated with, I found out through a website that "Rimp" as he was called went to High School at John Adams High School in Cleveland.

That may not be who it is, but I think that would be a good place to start. Thanks for the challenge. I could look at the sports ones all day. In fact I joined the site last year just to respond to one of a cap logo. Here is a little more info on Mr. Lanier- Rimp Lanier Statistics and History | Baseball-Reference.com

 

[DCMatt]

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Luis Polonia

I'm guessing from the 1995 Series against the Indians.

DCMatt

I still think Luis Polonia (with a funky squiggle on the end of his sig).

1994 - 99 and Cleveland narrows the possibilities somewhat but only one player on the Indian's rosters for those years has a first name starting with L (Larry Casian).

Atlanta played at Cleveland in the 1995 World Series. The only name on the Braves roster that might match is Luis Polonia.

I looked at a bunch of his signatures and many are dramatically different. But there seems to be elements that are similar enough to convince me - especially the big P that looks like a D and the lower case L in Polonia.

 

[Anduril]

Maybe Luis Polonia dropped the ball (no pun intended!) as he was signing the ball?
And when he picked it back up, didn't exactly finish where he left off.

A guess?

 

[DCMatt]

Polonia hit a home run in Cleveland in game 5 of the 1995 World Series.

It was the first World Series home run of his career (and the only). He was not a big HR hitter with only 36 in his career. So I'm thinking he would want that ball retrieved from the fan who got it.

I'm guessing he signed this ball in a hurry and with a paraph (who knew that squiggle after a signature actually has a name ) so it could be traded to the fan who had the real HR ball. That's why its sloppy... and in Cleveland.

Of course, I can't prove any of it but it makes a great story.