There are plenty of television shows on which people find valuable items in unusual places, but Babe Ruth's signature in a library storage closet in Lake County might be close to the top of that list.
The Cooper Memorial Library Association said it recently went through those items, and discovered a penny postcard, supposedly signed by the baseball legend.
When the library's downtown Clermont location closed, many items donated to the library went into storage, including the signed card.
After some research, the library association figured out the signature was probably from the 1940s, after Babe Ruth retired and began spending a lot of time in Florida with the Yankees at spring training and scouting.
"People took their postcards and wrote their addresses on the front of the postcard to get an autograph," said Terry Moherek, the library association's president. "So, this may have been one way whoever this person was had gotten this autograph."
The postcard has no address, but it does have some unfortunate, additional writing on it. It appears a child used the same signed card to practice his or her homework, writing, "Period is this," followed by an arrow pointing to the punctuation mark.
Several photos were also found in the storage unit, which could help identify the original owner.
If it's authenticated, the signature could be worth thousands -- or perhaps only hundreds, because of the extraneous writing.
Either way, the library association said it would be most valuable to them displayed in their historical collection, hopefully with some more information about how it was obtained.