Dear Babe: I have a signed baseball. About 10-15 years ago I placed it in a plastic baseball case, but it kept fading. Was that a mistake? How do I keep this baseball from fading any further?– Mike Reilly, Nashua
For starters, every expert Da Babe checked with said the plastic cases and ball holders should have no affect on the signatures.
“I prefer the cubes, since the ball only touches the plastic at four small spots on the baseball,” said Mike Heffner, president of www.Lelands.com auction house in New York.
The best advice is to keep it in a cool, dry spot out of direct light, especially sunlight.
There’s a reason the National Archives has subdued lighting.
They want folks to be able to see the Constitution and Declaration of Independence, but protecting the documents is paramount.
One person said that spraying a ball with a light mist of clear spray paint might be OK.![]()
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