Sports Illustrated Article on Peter Nash and the Hobby
 

Talk amongst yourselves.....maybe a little "coffee talk?" ;)


http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/the_bonus/12/09/nash/index.html

Reverend Dimmesdale's scarlet letter exposed...finally
 

Lifson, addressing the rumor of the library theft publicly for the first time, confirms that a kernel of it is true: Thirty-two years ago, he says, he was a precocious minor with too much money and freedom; one day while doing research at the library, high on a mix of drugs and alcohol, he secreted two photographs under a piece of cardboard attached to the outside of his briefcase. He was caught before he could leave the room.

....but he didn't inhale.

Wild tale indeed - thanks for posting this.

Cheers,
Blair

Of the $760,000 the court awarded to Lifson, he recouped $506,000 earlier this year when he conducted an unusual court-sanctioned buyer-beware auction of all his remaining Nash-sourced collateral. (The phony business card was not included.) Lifson stated that the most important material could not be approved by authenticators and that he didn't know which items were genuine and which were not. They included the 1897 Hugh Duffy trophy and the 1832 Philadelphia Olympics baseball. All the items were bought by an Arkansas dealer named John Rodgers.

What's the under/over for when these items end up in a Doug Allen auction?

I sense a Warren Zevon song
 

And it's not Werewolves of London :)

Well.........
 

it's already got Lawyers and Money.

Well Done Jeff
 

Good to know more than one person who appreciates that song is in the room ;)

Oh, I was thinking "Trouble Waiting to Happen."

Let us hope it never comes to the third option...

"The hobby is mostly filled with low-life hucksters, some of whom grow up to own important auction houses," says a longtime collector of early baseball material. "You can count the number of people who are smart and educated and honest on one hand."

We've narrowed down the possible source of this quote to one of roughly 10,000 collectors.

The teflon has hit the fan.

I love Peter's response, and so would W. Zevon. "The teflon's hit the fan," indeed. It even retains Warren's three beat line. You beat me to it, Peter, and so much the better for it.

Cheers,
Mike