The flamboyant signature of popular pitcher Dizzy Trout was applied to his 1940 Play Ball card, the card graded VG-EX 4 by PSA with the signature assessed as MINT 9.  Trout was a star during the war, his hearing deficiency keeping him out of the army.  Upon retirement, he did radio play-by-play for the Tigers for two seasons, and was very much a broadcaster in the vein of his namesake, Dizzy Dean.  Trout passed away in 1972, and his signature on cards is considered rare.  The card originates from the Shibe Park collection of autographed cards, an original owner collection carefully collected by a teenage boy who, in 1939 and 1940, obtained many autographs from players arriving at the train station near Shibe Park, and continued for many years to obtain signatures in person and through the mail.