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Let’s talk penmanship.....
It’s no secret that the art of fine penmanship is all but lost on modern athletes.
Gone are the days of the Babe:  Christy:  Sandy:  or the Mick:  Now, we are lucky to get a squiggly line or a lazy scrawl:  Among active players, who has the nicest signature? Consider legibility, flow, and flair. I nominate Trevor Rogers pre-MLB debut:  (post-debut) 
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06-04-2021, 01:54 PM
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Griffey has an amazing sig
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06-04-2021, 01:56 PM
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Is cursive even taught in school anymore?
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06-04-2021, 01:56 PM
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Gabe Holt has a great signature.
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06-04-2021, 01:56 PM
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The scribbles are exactly why I don’t collect autographs, so laughable
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06-04-2021, 01:58 PM
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Bonds changed his auto in 2005. Any 5th grade school teacher from the 80s would be proud.
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06-04-2021, 02:01 PM
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Griffey, Mariano Rivera, and Johnny Bench are probably my favorite living players.
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06-04-2021, 02:05 PM
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Griffey is by far my #1. If Freddie Freeman's sig didn't look terrible, I would own a bunch of his autos but I can't get past it. Ditto for Acuna
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06-04-2021, 02:07 PM
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Jeter's isnt bad. A lot of recent bowman 1st autos have not been good
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06-04-2021, 02:08 PM
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Nolan Ryan is another one who I think has a nice/clean signature
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06-04-2021, 02:10 PM
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06-04-2021, 02:11 PM
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Andres Gimenez has the worst auto i've ever seen early on. he really stepped it up since then and now has a really nice looking auto.
from a toddler to adult in just a couple years. edit: so much so, i have to cast some doubt he even signed those Optic cards personally. lol |
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06-04-2021, 02:14 PM
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My thinking is that players didn’t have to sign thousands of signatures at a time so they were able to take their time to write well. Panini, Topps probably shove 5,000 cards/stickers in front of the player at a time so they probably don’t take care of writing their name well.
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I’ll nominate Strasburg, Patino, Bleday, and Arozarena as top flight autos, sadly I have no Arozarena in my collection as of yet to show off...
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06-04-2021, 02:22 PM
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I like Juan Soto's signature when he takes his time with it
For the most part you're right though. I remember Harmon Killebrew stressing the importance of signatures to Twins players in the 2000's so guys like Michael Cuddyer and Torii Hunter had some really nice clean signatures. I guess that tradition didn't really carry on after Killebrew's death though. Berrios and Buxton have 5th grade cursive quality signatures and everyone else's signatures look like scribbles.
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06-04-2021, 02:22 PM
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Harmon Killebrew, Michael Cuddyer are goats
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06-04-2021, 02:47 PM
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The two modern players off the top of my head are both second generation, but neither have reached the bigs and one is out of baseball:
Mariano Rivera III and Torii Hunter Jr |
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I was always fond of Chipper Jones.
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06-04-2021, 02:51 PM
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Andre Dawson's is hands-down the best looking (imho)
I also really like Ozzie Smith's
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Jerry Reuss was always a good one.
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Justin Upton for current players:
 I also think DJ Stewart’s is pretty solid for even newer guys: 
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