People In Glass Houses.....

[Runscott]

Tony Lazerri autograph? Seriously?

[dgo71]

Originally Posted by Runscott

Tony Lazerri autograph? Seriously?

Ha....

[Runscott]

I can't avoid a train wreck (see icon).

I think everyone should participate in this thread. Who knows? Perhaps that is exactly what Chris intended, but he wanted to let us figure that out on our own.

[jgmp123]

Babe Ruth...

[clutch]

Mickey Mantle on a 3x5 index card

[GrayGhost]

Originally Posted by clutch

Mickey Mantle on a 3x5 index card

I love Mickey, Mickey who? Mickey Mantle. oooooooo I love you, Not Yogi Berra? oooooo I love you......

Wonderful vintage Mickey index card. you even have a photo of him signing it..

[RichardSimon]

Originally Posted by Runscott

Tony Lazerri autograph? Seriously?

+1,,, well done Scott.
could it have been ghost signed by Ty Cobb?

[Big Dave]

This tread is just plain stupid and a waste of board space and time.

Lock it.

[mighty bombjack]

Originally Posted by Big Dave

This tread is just plain stupid and a waste of board space and time.

Lock it.

If Chris doesn't bring this to some larger point that he wants to make, it does need to be locked. We could post fakes all day, but I don't think it's fair to allow continued speculation about where these came from.

[HRBAKER]

Assume for a minute that these all have to do with Mr. Nash (I have NO idea but it has been speculated above), I don't think anybody ever tried to impute to him any sort of noble intentions; does it necessarily make everything he says/uncovers/prints false? Or rather does it require a greater deal of scrutiny due to the origin? Or should it be discounted altogether?

[slidekellyslide]

Originally Posted by HRBAKER

Assume for a minute that these all have to do with Mr. Nash (I have NO idea but it has been speculated above), I don't think anybody ever tried to impute to him any sort of noble intentions; does it necessarily make everything he says/uncovers/prints false? Or rather does it require a greater deal of scrutiny due to the origin? Or should it be discounted altogether?

The entirety of his website is more about retribution than it is in recovering stolen items from the NYPL and Hall of Fame and cleaning up the hobby.. Does anyone doubt that if his misdeeds were still unknown that he'd be doing any of this "sleuthing"? However with that said most of what he's putting out there is pretty damning and I don't see too many people refuting any of it.

[RichardSimon]

Originally Posted by slidekellyslide

most of what he's putting out there is pretty damning and I don't see too many people refuting any of it.

+1

[Runscott]

Read the following (written by Peter Nash, himself) and you'll understand how great he is.

Amazing how Hamilton was able to get Peter Nash in touch with his dark side, purely through analyzing his handwriting

"But from 1989 to 1995 Nash experienced the dark side of the baseball collectibles field as he discovered, with the help of his friend and world renowned handwriting expert Charles Hamilton, that close to a quarter million dollars worth of materials he’d purchased were either bogus or stolen goods. Some of the stolen items were believed to originate from the collections of the New York Public Library and the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY. Over the past fifteen years, Nash has conducted his own personal investigation into the hobby, which now constitutes the backdrop for his compelling exposé on the fraud-ridden industry. In particular, Nash has succeeded in unraveling some of the hobby’s greatest mysteries involving massive thefts from the historical baseball collections housed at the New York Public Library, Boston Public Library and National Baseball Hall of Fame. "

[mighty bombjack]

Originally Posted by HRBAKER

Assume for a minute that these all have to do with Mr. Nash (I have NO idea but it has been speculated above), I don't think anybody ever tried to impute to him any sort of noble intentions; does it necessarily make everything he says/uncovers/prints false? Or rather does it require a greater deal of scrutiny due to the origin? Or should it be discounted altogether?

I love the haulsofshame website and am glad that he is doing the work that he is, but I think that Nash's history in this hobby does make his assertions subject to a greater deal of scrutiny. When Richard posted in the thread about the Yankees ball that he had spoken to a number of individuals who didn't like the ball, I believed him because he has a stellar reputation and doesn't appear driven by an agenda. I am much less prone to believe much of what is said by the anonymous "experts" quoted by Nash. He has an agenda and it is skewing his journalism. I happily read what he writes with that in mind.

[Tuna82]

Originally Posted by mighty bombjack

I love the haulsofshame website and am glad that he is doing the work that he is, but I think that Nash's history in this hobby does make his assertions subject to a greater deal of scrutiny. When Richard posted in the thread about the Yankees ball that he had spoken to a number of individuals who didn't like the ball, I believed him because he has a stellar reputation and doesn't appear driven by an agenda. I am much less prone to believe much of what is said by the anonymous "experts" quoted by Nash. He has an agenda and it is skewing his journalism. I happily read what he writes with that in mind.

well said...