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Posted By: Dan Bretta

Most of the things you list are on the table for the visit. Robert Plancich can not be there because of the pending litigation against him, but I think they are going to have a representative there. I have been told that O'Keefe was also given an invite, but declined. I don't know the financial situation of the Henrich family, but in one of my old Robert Edward auction catalogs his game used glove was auctioned off and didn't go for much. It stated that it came directly from a recent estate auction of the Henrich family. I'm guessing that they auctioned off his estate around the time he was going into residential care. That really is not evidence either way if his family was in need of money. As for the ballmarks, I am told we will be shown photos from the HoF that show DiMaggio batting both label up and down. I have also been told that you can see this in the Ken Burns Baseball documentary which I own and will be watching this before I go out to Chicago. I have looked at hundreds of photos in my own collection and honestly can not tell if he bats label up or down on any of them. As for the authenticators having conflicts of interest I think SCDA is headed in the right direction, but really they could do more to make sure this is avoided in the future, and I think it would be in their best interest to do so.