Sen. Doug Jones has a signed baseball from every senator — including himself

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published 10 July 2019

Sen. Doug Jones (D-Ala.) has built the wonkiest memorabilia collection of all time.

In Jones' office, there's a cherry wood cabinet filled with 100 baseballs. They all feature signatures, not from baseball stars, and not even from Congressional Baseball Game stars, but from all the U.S. senators serving in this Congress.

It's clear from these pictures HuffPost's Igor Bobic tweeted that not every lawmaker is familiar with signing a sports collectible. Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) threw in a wispy "Aloha!" next to her flowing signature, yet Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer's (D-N.Y.) pale scribble fails to excite. Meanwhile, Jones' signature — yes, it's up there — shines next to his colleague Sen. Richard Shelby's (R-Ala.) scribble.

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In a few years — though likely several years after Jones is presumably voted out of the Senate next year — that memorabilia might be worth something.

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Kathryn is a graduate of Syracuse University, with degrees in magazine journalism and information technology, along with hours to earn another degree after working at SU's independent paper The Daily Orange. She's currently recovering from a horse addiction while living in New York City, and likes to share her extremely dry sense of humor on Twitter.