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Originally Posted by topcat61
Thanks Leon, I think this pretty much closes the Corson case, unless by some amazing chance there is evidence he did play under an assumed name.
I think collectors and Hobby historians were all thinking along the lines Matt at the Hall of Fame discovered (he did a fantastic job!) but may have had reservations about saying this guy fabricated his past. This wasn't fun for me, I wanted to tell people about Mr. Corson's Baseball career and as a card collector and uncovered a giant 60 year fraud.
What's been running in the back of my mind, is how did the go on for so long and why didn't any of our hobby founders like Buck Barker, Charles Brooks or Lionel Carter check into this when it was written?
Leon, in your opinion, does this hurt Corson's credibility in every other aspect of the hobby like his writings and research?
I'd still love a photograph of Mr. Corson though.
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Well, I have not given enough thought to this particular situation, but I guess it would hurt credibility if someone were living a lie and never came clean. That said I wouldn't dismiss someone's entire work for one misleading situation. I would have to take it as a situational thing and not a wholly collective one.
Except for the little bit which has been written here lately, and the little I gleaned in the few conversations with the late Mr. Lowe, I don't know much about Corson's biography. I do have some, or most, of his checklists from when he was collecting though.
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