need help identifying one baseball autograph

[gamecockfanatic]

i recently got an e-mail from one of my ebay customers asking if i could help him identify an autograph on what he simply described as an old baseball...

i've looked at it for quite some time and i thought i had an idea of at least the first name so i did a bit of research but still came up empty...i'm not sure if i was wrong on the first name or not and i'm also not sure if the player in question ever made the majors or was a minor league player...

if anyone here has any ideas , please let me know...