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Originally Posted by oldjudge
In nearly all cases you don't try to associate an autographed baseball with a particular game. I don't care when a Babe Ruth ball was signed, only that Ruth signed it. Here you are trying to associate this ball with a particular game, with no proof, as far as I can see, that the ball was there (except for the score and date). If this ball had come from the estate of a player in the game, with letters of provenance or pictures of the player holding the ball, then I think you would have something. How an authenticator would write an LOA on the ball, saying it was from a specific game, is beyond my understanding.
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MEARS stated on the LOA they based their findings on the inscription on the ball. That is their leap of faith. I don't collect these sort of things but understand leaps of faith. It seems like a fair debate with this ball....
edited to add, it looks like these type baseball can easily go for thousands of dollars. That is interesting.