I dunno if this qualifies for Antique Meme Roadshow but it is Antique Roadshow. Sorta.
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if the average signature takes up an area of 20cm² (including necessary padding), and if every person of the 8 billion alive has indeed signed that bat, then the total space taken for the signatures would be 160 billion cm²--or 16km², which is about as big as most airports.
the ratio of length of a baseball bat to its average diameter is 42": 2". since height (h)=42x the radius (r), the equation for the surface area of a baseball bat simplifies to 42πr³.
so if our baseball bat holds all 8bn signatures on its 160bn cm² surface, the radius of such a bat would be ~1066cms, or 11 meters. and its length would be 447 meters or about six 747s stacked nose-to-tail human-centipede style.
(yes, this has been a productive saturday morning, indeed.)
(edit: minor corrections.)
20cm²? Maybe if they sign freely, but I think most people can fit them in 6cm² (3×2cm), with some padding, if they try.
not with the type of thick-nibbed pen that's most likely to be used when signing bats (and that, indeed, has been used on the bat in the OP).
separately, "most" and "average" are not synonymous.