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Originally Posted by Runscott
Those must look ghastly. I would love to see an example.
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I think I've seen one.
Years ago maybe 1987? I was helping out at a stamp dealer in exchange for free stuff. He was getting into baseball cards and other stuff and had bought a letter from Cobb. Both sides of a sheet all handwritten in green. The first side was the usual sort of thing responding to an autograph request, "thanks for remembering me " "Ballplayer X was a great one" That sort of thing. The back side with the signature was essentailly almost entirely "Bad Cobb" running down modern players and including a couple racist remarks.
One of my big hobby regrets was not scraping up the money to buy it.
Then I found the article linked earlier, and I think maybe something Jim wrote, and that changed. I'm pretty sure it was fake now, and in a way i'm glad I didn't buy it. Part of me would still be interested as it was a rather elaborate forgery, but not for the price it was then.
Steve B