Ruth Signed ball, funny

[HOF Auto Rookies]

Who wouldn't want this:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/bABE-rUTH-SI...item3cc9034c77

[HOF Auto Rookies]

Or this:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/BABE-RUTH-AU...item5894ec012c

[39special]

Great description and picture of the rUTH ball!Who wouldn't want it.

[thetruthisoutthere]

Originally Posted by HOF Auto Rookies

Or this:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/BABE-RUTH-AU...item5894ec012c

Oh my goodness!!!!!! Here it is. Is the seller really serious?

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[earlywynnfan]

Originally Posted by HOF Auto Rookies

Who wouldn't want this:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/bABE-rUTH-SI...item3cc9034c77

I emailed the seller because I'm just amazed at this! How do you go 6 years on ebay without a single transaction, then come out with a Babe Ruth signed ball without actually showing a signature or description of any kind, and actually think someone will bid?? Why not just throw your insertion money out the window?

Ken

[rjackson44]

christopher come on it has 25 bids lol

[JimStinson]

One of the reasons for these wierd autographs on e-bay and elsewhere MIGHT be because the person genuinely believes they are good. I have had countless episodes of meeting with people who show be the Babe Ruth (or others) and tell me they have been in the family for decades and now want to sell them. Some of the autographs are not even close , so when I break the bad news the first words out of their mouths are

1) I don't know what I'm talking about , Uncle Charlie got it himself and its been in the family for years
2) They will sell it on e-bay themselves

Some of the stories are unexplainable , I met with an elderly man once over a decade ago who came to see me with his daughter, he was on a respirator and in a wheel chair and in his 90's , before he showed me the ball he spent 30 minutes telling me about how he got the autograph, shaking the Babe's hand watching him sign it etc. I was absolutely certain before even looking at it that it was real. When he finally handed it to me I could see instantly that it was signed by Mrs Babe Ruth. I politely declined to buy the ball and he then told me the name of a well known former autograph dealer who now works for an auction company that offered him $8,000 for it. Don;t know if that was true or not but thats what he said. Then he wanted to know WHY I didn;t want to buy it and after going around and around I finally told him.

If he could have got out of his wheelchair to hit me he would have , be became furious and said HE WATCHED BABE RUTH SIGN THE BALL and told me I was calling him a liar. It was quite a scene and for a minute there I thought the daughter might take a poke at me, I tried to be as diplomatic as I could be so my point is that some of these folks actually believe what they have is genuine and despite anything anyone can tell them what they have is the real deal.

[scmavl]

I just picked these up on ebay last night, I'm so excited to get them!

Signed Post-It's of Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, and Joe Jackson! They've got to be rare!!!

[thetruthisoutthere]

Originally Posted by scmavl

I just picked these up on ebay last night, I'm so excited to get them!

Signed Post-It's of Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, and Joe Jackson! They've got to be rare!!!

That's funny, Jarrod!!!!!!!!

[thetruthisoutthere]

[QUOTE=JimStinson;1016286]One of the reasons for these wierd autographs on e-bay and elsewhere MIGHT be because the person genuinely believes they are good.

Ditto.

[scmavl]

Maybe so, I guess some people don't research and compare.

[mr2686]

Jarrod, how much for the Joe Jackson?

[travrosty]

there are numerous bad autographs where the person believes it is good. you just can't tell them otherwise.

a guy had a james corbett signature recently that wasn't any good. he asked me if i wanted to buy an old 1892 james corbett signature. i told him it wasnt any good.

he then said that he asked me if i wanted to buy it, not if it was authentic, because he already knew it was authentic. (it's not).

i told him i could show him what was wrong. he didnt want to know. i showed him anyway , he didnt care and said i didnt know what i was talking about,

he said i was an amateur because he sent it into spence and spence gave it a coa just like i knew spence would do. It's not a real corbett autograph, now it has a spence coa. it might as well have been signed by bozo the clown but if they don't want to listen, there isnt anything anyone can do. now he might be able to sell it because spence looked at it for awhile and gave it a coa.

it's so frustrating.

[jgmp123]

Originally Posted by thetruthisoutthere

That's funny, Jarrod!!!!!!!!

That Joe Jackson is dead on! Beautiful find!