Heritage or Consignor - one is full of crap

[ruth-gehrig]

Interesting! You know the facts and now everyone who reads this thread does as well. My guess would be that this story was told to Heritage by the consigner but who knows. I'm sure they would just blame each other if it came down to it.

[Forever Young]

Originally Posted by ruth-gehrig

Interesting! You know the facts and now everyone who reads this thread does as well. My guess would be that this story was told to Heritage by the consigner but who knows. I'm sure they would just blame each other if it came down to it.

Agreed.. I do not believe Heritage would make up a story like this at all. If auction houses go by and post stories on the word of consigners, these things will continue to happen. Unfortunately, there are a lot of people who poop from their mouths in this hobby.

[thecatspajamas]

Just as a refresher, here was the previous thread on this ball:

http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=161870

Interesting also that Heritage makes a point of noting that the stitching is black and red as would be appropriate for an official NL ball, but as Paul verified previously, it definitely appears to have blue and red stitching. I guess that still doesn't rule out the exhibition game possibility though.

[Shoeless Moe]

I remember the seller listing all 4 balls, the next best one was signed I believe by some Cincy Reds, but no Jackson or Cobb or Wagner.

All 4 went for under $200.


I re-sold the one for $1,000.....be interesting to see what this brings....luckily the majority of the story of the ball is true....just the BS at the end which has nothing to do with it peaked my interest.

[ddog5]

Heritage has some other "stories" for other auctions listed. Most likely told by the consignor.

[ctownboy]

Shoeless,

I hope you have some supporting evidence to back up your claims. Because, if you do, I would love to hear what Heritage says and then does about this if you produce the evidence to back up what you are saying.

David

[Shoeless Moe]

I don't have any proof on paper. I just know what happened. I bought it from the Ebay seller in Cambridge, who yes did have three other balls, but he listed all 4 balls. I bought the one that is now in the Heritage auction.

I probably could go back to feedback I left for others, because I always leave feedback, find out who that original Cambridge seller was, then look at his feedback, and I'd think he rec'd feedback for the other 3 balls, or at least a couple.

So that would be my only proof, and if really need be, I could eventually ask the Cambridge seller what else he had, Shoeless Joe Jackson, Ty Cobb and Honus Wagner balls, quite certain that wasn't the case, cuz we talked back then and he told me what he had. He had no reason not to say if he had those. He said he had a couple he had found and he listed all he found.