no, he never pitched at miami, he never set foot on the ball field there. No record of him on the roster, or in the team photographs.
The captain of the miami squad who played there for three years both when foxx was coach and the year after, affirmed that halper was never on the squad.
"If Halper pitched for the team, he was a ghost" was the quote he used.
Halper also gave two differing stories about how Foxx and Ott both signed the sheet.
One version has Foxx telling him to bring the sheet in and both he and Ott will sign it at the same time. The other version has Halper bringing the sheet to the field to have Foxx sign it, and then Ott supposedly signed it later.
He also had two stories on how the Ruth autograph got on the 500 homerun sheet. One story is that he got Ruth's autograph personally in 1948 on Babe Ruth day at Yankee Stadium. The other story is that his father gave him the sheet with Ruth's signature already on it.
The Ruth signature on the 500 homerun sheet matches the two signatures on the Babe Ruth hair display letter of provenance and envelope that Halper said he traded an Iowa collector for. All three signatures match exactly, and all are forgeries in the opinion of nearly everybody.
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