In the course of a forgery investigation, FBI agents once asked baseball legend Joe DiMaggio to provide them with handwriting samples for comparison with suspect memorabilia. While the following exemplars would probably now be worth a fortune, the originals were returned to the Yankee Clipper when the probe ended without charges being filed. Even so, one memo notes that Joe D would not have been the greatest witness because of the difficulty in discerning which of his autographs were real and which were fake. (6 pages)

Speaking of signatures, this flyer describes the "herculean task" home run king Hank Aaron faced during a recent New York book-signing. (1 page)

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