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Originally Posted by David Atkatz
Without a doubt, sports autograph collecting has gone to the dogs.
It's a twice signed sheet of hotel stationary, for chrissakes. It's not a letter (which might have interesting baseball content), or a contract (which again is an actual historical artifact with some meaning).
Authentication was bad enough--unless the gods on Mt Olympus (PSA and JSA) provide their imprimatur, don't even try to sell. (And those assholes know less, and have less experience than many collectors.) But now, It has to be graded, too! A 10! A 10!. Now that's worth a $5k premium!
Don't you realize those numbers are totally subjective? Tell me the difference between a 9 signature and a 10 signature. Only difference is the day it was graded, and which teenage "expert" did the grading.
It's just pathetic how collectors have given up all autonomy, and all attempts to actually learn anything, and depend upon faceless, nameless, self-proclaimed experts.
Two signatures. Nothing more. the simplest, most meaningless holograph item you can find.
But it's a 10!
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After reading your post this morning, I thought to myself, “Man, this guy may need to go to anger management classes.” Then after going back and reading some of your past posts, I thought to myself, “Yup!”
In all seriousness, your post had nothing to do with my comment and looking for thoughts on value, nor did it add anything of positive value to it. It was nothing more than your hateful rant against sports autograph collecting, autograph collectors, and the authenticators (PSA, JSA, etc.).
You see this as “two signatures. Nothing more. the simplest, most meaningless holograph item you can find.” This just goes to show how much you don’t know.
I see this as an awesome piece! Two beautiful authentic Babe Ruth signatures on a single piece of Hotel President New York stationery of the late 1920 / early 1930’s. How many items have you seen with two Babe Ruth signatures (PSA 10) on it? Waiting, waiting…Crickets! And yes, contracts are cool, but they are not signed Babe Ruth.
Next time, before thinking about posting another hateful rant against sports autograph collecting, autograph collectors, and the authenticators (PSA, JSA, etc.) on someone’s post, maybe just consider creating your own posts about what you hate and then rant all you want.
Yes, I don’t appreciate your post!
P.S. I did find this somewhat funny on your post “FS: 1998 Yankees Team-Signed Baseball - Absolutely guaranteed to pass PSA or JSA, or full refund.”