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Old 03-20-2017, 04:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Scott Garner View Post
But, IMHO this is pretty sketchy provenance because of the indirect (instead of direct) link to the game, plus a HP umpire which was a prosecuted felon and did prison time for faking "game balls" from this game and other historic games.
Which means that this item can be directly linked to a man convicted of faking the item in question.

Short of a photo match (has there ever been one for a baseball?), I think it's sadly pretty obvious that the odds of this being one of the balls faked by Al Clark are far higher than it being an actual game ball.

On a brighter note, that means this ball was held in the same hand that held every real game ball.

Doug "there is always a bright side" Goodman
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