Displayed is a multi-signed baseball signed by Gene Kelly and Esther Williams - two of the three stars of the hit 1949 MGM musical film Take Me Out to the Ball Game. Kelly and Frank Sinatra (the third star) made three movie musicals together: Anchors Aweigh, On The Town, and Take Me Out to the Ball Game, and both stars have said that their favorite of the three pictures was Take Me Out to the Ball Game. Sinatra and Kelly play early twentieth century Major League baseball players who also are Vaudevillians in the off-season. Actually, baseball players and managers did frequently appear in Vaudeville in the off-season at that time, such as Hall of Fame pitcher Christy Mathewson and Hall of Famer player and manager John McGraw. In the movie Take Me Out to the Ball Game, Esther Williams stars as K.C. Higgins, the new owner of the Wolves, a fictional Major League team on which second baseman Dennis Ryan (Sinatra) and shortstop Eddie O'Brien (Kelly) are key players. Apparently, Judy Garland was originally the choice to play K.C. Higgins, but the unreliability of Garland at that time resulted in Williams eventually being selected for the role. Kelly and Sinatra, both big baseball fans, dance up a storm, and they perform a rousing song and dance called "O'Brien to Ryan to Goldberg," based on the famed poem by Franklin Pierce Adams called "Baseball's Sad Lexicon," also called "Tinker to Evers to Chance," immortalizing the famed Chicago Cubs double-play combo. The reference to Goldberg in the song is apparently meant as a "bouquet" to Hall of Famer Hank Greenberg. Esther Williams is excellent, even though her selection for her role allowed little time to modify the script to get her much time to show off her Olympic swimming ability. The famed Busby Berkeley officially directed the movie, even though Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen took over much of the direction during filming. An interesting note is that the Sinatra character is shown on the face of a T206 baseball card, which would indicate that the events in the movie were meant to suggest 1909-11. The offered baseball came from the estate of Mace Neufield, a Hollywood producer and writer. The unofficial ball, Model 70, size 9, manufacturer unknown, has "American League" stamped on it. The ball exhibits some darkening and toning (to be expected, given the long passage of time), and also a few very small stains; overall, the ball is in good condition. Gene Kelly and Esther Williams signed in blue/black ink with a steel-tip fountain pen, and each of the signatures is neatly written, and each signature shows some fading. The multi-signed ball shows "Frank Sinatra" on the sweet spot, but that signature has been deemed secretarial. Williams and Kelly signed on opposing side panels. This signed baseball has terrific cross appeal to fans of both baseball and the movies because of the signatures of Hollywood greats Kelly and Williams. It comes with a JSA LOA, Cert. #YY33483.