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This is a by product of "it's got a cert from the finest authenticators in the industry so it must be good" mentality. These certs and card grading have made it very easy for the AHs to distance themselves IMO from actual in house expertise on items.
They did the right thing when they pulled the other balls.
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Further, what is truly hypocritical here is NOT that Heritage is now pointing to the ball itself as an argument for the signature's authenticity. That is a valid argument (though a weak and incomplete one), made most likely in response to the reasons that other baseballs were pulled down. Good for them. What IS htpocritical in this case is that they are continuing to point at the expertise of JSA and PSA/DNA, even as the other ball that was taken down because of markings on it had letters from those same people.
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it's not a valid argument, ball dating can only rule out an autograph, never rule one in. fake autographs may or may not be on period balls, but real ones have to be on period balls, they cannot be on out of period balls. so pointing to a period ball only says it is not a definite fake based only on the ball it is signed on, that is all it can say. |
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Further, there is more than simple ball dating going on here, which creates a stronger argument (still weak and incomplete, but a step in true autograph verification) and is quite interesting to me. I'm learning quite a bit from this "Platinum Night" auction, most of which Heritage probably didn't want me (or anyone else) to learn.
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I think someone is missing the point. The balls where taken down not because of there expert authenticators. It was taken down because people like Nash forced them to by pointing out that the balls where dated for wrong time to have been signed by those people. Those where forgery's on the ball and yet they are trying to tell us how great there people are. I will say this again. They did not take the balls down because they wanted to. They took them down because they had to no other choice.
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I posted pics of both balls because I found it odd that the stitching is going in different directions. I thought Reach was anal about that sort of thing, but I guess not.
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where were their expert authenticators on the balls they took down, like the 1940 gehrig and the ty cobb signed wilson ball. why arent the awesome authenticators on those balls as well. why just awesome on the ones that heritage wants them to be awesome on?
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Do you think it's a bad/hypocritical thing that this information was posted by Heritage, as others here seem to be arguing?
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Wayne, agreed that they gave us the date of the ball to show that the ball is authentic. It does not make the autographs on the ball authentic. That is what I find hypocritical. They have never once said that there most respected people authenticated crap. Because the ball is real we should think that the autographs have to be as well.
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They are still coupling the dating of the ball WITH the TPA LOAs. THAT is their argument for authenticity, for whatever it is worth. And they need to recognize that we know the Gehrig sweet spot ball had those same TPA LOAs
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