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Thought I'd share. Was randomly searching through their closets the other day and found an official NL autographed ball with three sigs on it...

 

1) Turk Wendell

2) Bill Murray

3) Ryne Sandberg

 

WTF? Wendell's sig is a little smudged but Murray and Sandberg's sigs aren't. I found this ball completely unprotected sitting in a box under a mountain of clothes in their closet.

 

I looked at it and was like "Wow, a Turk Wendell signed ball, I don't remember getting this" Then I said "Is that Bill Murray? I never met Bill Murray" and then I saw Sandberg's chicken scratch auto and was like "Why the hell are these three signatures on the same friggin' ball?"

 

I asked my parents about it, they said they don't remember but they probably got it at an auction because my brother was a big Sandberg fan. Thought it was kinda funny and figured some folks might get kick out of the story

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Now with pictures!

 

Turk Wendell w/ smudge

http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd256/gallow737/PIC_0396Medium.jpg

 

Bill Murray. It looks a little smudged in the pic but it's actually the ball that's scuffed, not the sig. It's a little dirty, it may have been played with before it was signed (or after for all I know)

http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd256/gallow737/PIC_0398Medium.jpg

 

Mr. Sandberg w/ slight smudge on the "R"

http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd256/gallow737/PIC_0400Medium.jpg

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lol, while I'm pretty sure that's a joke I think I plan on keeping this myself. Since there's no COA it's no more than a sentimental auto'd ball. But like you I am more "wow'd", if you will, by the Murray autograph as well. My brother already has a Sandberg ball, and anyone can buy one of those from an auction or from a vendor. Bill Murray isn't exactly a common autograph
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I was in Cooperstown a few years ago for Hall of Fame induction weekend when Sandberg was going inand there's a golf course that a lot of the HOFers golf on early in the morning and we were hanging out by the course when Bill Murray shows up he stops for a little bit and signs a few autographs all while people are telling him to say "It's in the hole" when he gets to somebody wearing a Mets hat he promptly takes the ball says, "A Mets fan?" throws the ball onto the course and drives away. I'm not sure if the person ever got their ball back, but me and the 15 or so people around thought it was pretty funny.
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I was in Cooperstown a few years ago for Hall of Fame induction weekend when Sandberg was going inand there's a golf course that a lot of the HOFers golf on early in the morning and we were hanging out by the course when Bill Murray shows up he stops for a little bit and signs a few autographs all while people are telling him to say "It's in the hole" when he gets to somebody wearing a Mets hat he promptly takes the ball says, "A Mets fan?" throws the ball onto the course and drives away. I'm not sure if the person ever got their ball back, but me and the 15 or so people around thought it was pretty funny.

 

LOL, that's awesome

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Actually, I was looking for a box filled with all my Dad's old cop stuff. Ironically, when I was a kid he totally had a bunch of old Playboy type stuff. Hardbound collectors editions and stuff. Think he threw them out years ago though :(
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Actually, I was looking for a box filled with all my Dad's old cop stuff. Ironically, when I was a kid he totally had a bunch of old Playboy type stuff. Hardbound collectors editions and stuff. Think he threw them out years ago though :(

 

My dad still has the Barbie Benton issue. They just sent me the programs from a game in 1967/68 with Ernie Banks sig on it. My dad is dying and he has even said "wait until you have to clean out his closet in his man cave he has in the garage."

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That's a really cool piece of memorabilia. Bill Murray signed baseball seems weird-- when I initially read this post I went to see if there was a baseball player named Bill Murray I had never heard of. It probably came from a game where Murray through out the first pitch--where one wouldn't necessarily have their copy of "Ghostbusters" handy.

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