"Race card played in failure to sell Honus collectible"

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Posted By: Mike P

Just when you thought it had gone away for a while...

Michael O'Keeffe of the New York Daily News not only regurgitates last week's bad news story, but conflates it with the fiction that anybody -- besides Cobb, Edwards, and auctioneer Connelly -- cares who's selling a bogus Honus.

O'Keeffe's article, "Race card played in failure to sell Honus collectible," is here (scroll down):
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/story/444941p-374723c.html

He says, in part:

"On Network 54, an Internet vintage card forum, the reaction was mixed. Some collectors were angry that Cobb and Edwards weren't dismissed as crooks.

Others agreed that Cobb and Edwards may be on to something when they say prejudice has played a role in the debate over their card."

Of course, all the folks who are quoted as thinking the card is a fake ARE white.

Cincinnati sports memorabilia dealer Wolter inspected the card and told Cobb & Edwards it wasn't genuine eight or nine years ago, then again Tuesday on Real Sports.

Joe Orlando of PSA finally broke his long careful silence on Real Sports and pointed out the crucial differences in the typography under the image.

And then there's NY broker Mike "Mango" Mangaserian (sp), whom O'Keeffe played up in an earlier column. Mike inspected the card in Manhattan and thought it might be okay. He handled it in Binghamton before the auction and said the paper felt wrong. He didn't bid for his client.

Of course, just about everybody here on VBC is white, too.

Obviously, a racial conspiracy!

The Cobb/Edwards card has been called controversial. Nonsense. The only question is how Cobb and Edwards manage to keep their "story" alive in the national media.

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