Answering specific autograph authenticity questions and help

[Big Dave]

Ken...

I've always told people that Mantle never signed any bats for SB.....Could you verify?

Thanks.

[thetruthisoutthere]

Originally Posted by Big Dave

Ken...

I've always told people that Mantle never signed any bats for SB.....Could you verify?

Thanks.

Mantle never signed bats for Scoreboard. Ken will confirm that.

[kengoldin]

Mickey Mantle never signed a single bat for Score Board.
The same can be said of Joe Dimaggio.
This includes not even signing a personally owned bat for me.

SB did have a large QTY of Dimaggio bats for sale, but they did not come with SB certificates. They were the limited edition #d of 1941 bats that were sold to HSN, and then I acquired by trading HSN trading cards for the bats. Those bats were marketing with a notarized LOA and NOT a SB cert.

if anyone ever tries to sell you a Mantle OR a Joe D bat with a Score Board cert, if is fake.

[JimStinson]

Originally Posted by kengoldin

Mickey Mantle never signed a single bat for Score Board.
The same can be said of Joe Dimaggio.
This includes not even signing a personally owned bat for me.

SB did have a large QTY of Dimaggio bats for sale, but they did not come with SB certificates. They were the limited edition #d of 1941 bats that were sold to HSN, and then I acquired by trading HSN trading cards for the bats. Those bats were marketing with a notarized LOA and NOT a SB cert.

if anyone ever tries to sell you a Mantle OR a Joe D bat with a Score Board cert, if is fake.

Ken,
I can 2nd that , I lined up a private signing once with Mickey Mantle on the phone with Greer Johnson. He was at that time in Atlanta. We worked it all out on the phone and it was a done deal. I could hear him barking instructions in the background. Then I told her I had a Mickey Mantle bat that I had when I was a kid and would he sign just that ONE bat for me during the signing and I would never sell it. She said flat out NO. And I could hear him saying "No bats". And I said One bat ??? answer NO ! I took it personal it broke the deal and man ......I wish I wasn't so hard headed
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[shelly]

I was lucky. We had the first signing of Mickey on the West Coast in 1982. Part of the deal was fifty of his own Bats not the cheap junk. He signed everyone of them and on some he did Mickey Charles Mantle. He charged us an addition fifty dollars a bat. Tommy was handling most of everything but Johnson was there with her hand out.

[Mr. Zipper]

Why was Mantle so adamant about not signing bats? Did he just not like signing them due to size, shape, etc?

Or did he think they were "worth too much"? If that was the case, just jack up the fee.

[shelly]

Why would you ask that question. . He would sign anything if the price was right. If you look on Ebay you will find Mantle bats that are authentic. Not only from Uda but at signings he did all over the country. The five hundred hr show. The Maris and Mantle bat. He signed a limited 1952 bat that is nineteen hundred and fifty two just for Uda.