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Originally Posted by shelly
When baseball where signed by someone else in the 30's 40's and 50's they where call club house signings. Now they would be a forged ball. You want to buy a ball with autographs that are not authentic go for it. The main person on that ball is Lou Gehrig he might have allowed someone to sign his or not. It still is not his autograph. You can call it what ever you want but it is not authentic.
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True. But don't you think the market views them differently? One was the product of the times, not much different than a printed ball you could buy at the souvenir stand. Whereas one has malicious intent with no other purpose other than to deceive and rip someone off.
For the right price, I could accept a ball in my collection that had a clubhouse or two mixed in with real. I would not want anything with a forgery on it.