Babe Ruth?

[RichardSimon]

Originally Posted by Scott Garner

Travis,

Perhaps I'm jumping the gun here and reading too much into this, but maybe Chris and Nash have been discussing the "Babe Ruth" signed 700th HR ticket.
It dawned on me that Chris might not have revealed the "tells" because of a pre-existing promise to Nash since he had planned on writing about it in his HOS.

Food for thought...

You are going to get Chris banned from Heritage if they think he is working with Nash .
Chris and Nash do not discuss anything.

[Scott Garner]

Originally Posted by RichardSimon

You are going to get Chris banned from Heritage if they think he is working with Nash .
Chris and Nash do not discuss anything.

Oh well, never mind then. Carry on...

[David Atkatz]

The other Ruth signature that Chris presented, allegedly by the "Michigan forger," shows none of Nash's three "tells." They could not be what Chris had in mind.

in another recent HoS column, Nash has presented two "tells" for mid-thirties, rushed, "ballpark" Gehrig signatures. It is a nice piece of work. But I have shown a genuine, correct-period Gehrig which exhibits one of the two. Tells are a guide--they are not ironclad.

Again, to his credit, Nash has presented an hypothesis, which can be tested. In this case I believe he is wrong.

it does not appear to me that the "a" in the ticket signature is "written backwards."

Ruth always doublebacked on the final stroke of the "h." This slight return stroke usually is horizontal, and goes over the left-to-right stroke. Usually, but not always. Nash's "arrowhead formation" appears occasionally in genuine Ruth signatures.

That leaves the short t-cross-stroke. Enough to disqualify the signature? I don't think so.

[Runscott]

Originally Posted by David Atkatz

The other Ruth signature that Chris presented, allegedly by the "Michigan forger," shows none of Nash's three "tells." They could not be what Chris had in mind.

This is really killing me.

Not picking on you David, and I know you hate talking about this ball, but since you and I are in total disagreement as to its authenticity, it's a good example to discuss. In your opinion, does this Ruth signature demonstrate any of Nash's 3 tells?

[thetruthisoutthere]

Originally Posted by RichardSimon

You are going to get Chris banned from Heritage if they think he is working with Nash .
Chris and Nash do not discuss anything.

Richard is correct.

I have never communicated with Mr. Peter Nash or Mr. Ron Keurajian.

According to Mr. Peter Nash's website, he contacted Huggins & Scott on April 6, 2013.

I posted my Babe Ruth Ticket thread on March 31, 2013. I started the thread a few hours after I read about the auction on the Sports Collectors Daily website.