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davidcycleIt is the press that falls for these stories (which is why they are stories). Sometimes a newspaper's knowledge level about T206 Wagners authenticity is on the the level of the most naive eBayer. Makes you wonder if the naivete is similar in other areas of reporting, like legal coverage, the legislature, foreign affairs, science and medicine.
It seems the only people who took seriously the 'blue eyed' Wagner were the press and one or two other rubes. What the press learned is it is the collectors who buy the cards and, irrelevant to what they press reports, if the collectors don't think something is genuine it's not going to sell. Knowledgeable Pre-War baseball card collectors aren't going to pay thousands of dollars for a color Froy Joy Ruth sheet no matter how many specials HBOs have about it-- and the reason for this is that the knowledgeable collectors know that the the color versions are cheapo reprints. HBO specials and Toledo newspaper stories won't make the color sheets any more original.