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Originally Posted by David Atkatz
Halper was certainly not in the same league as the Cooperstown forger skill-wise, knowledge of baseball history-wise, and, most importantly, intelligence-wise. But (in my opinion), he is (was) every bit as much as a crook.
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Halper said that he got ruth's auto in person on babe ruth day when Halper was a kid , then he said his dad gave him the sheet with ruth's auto already on it.
then they find an envelope and letter with (incredibly) the same type of ruth's signature on it. Jsa calls it a non-malicious secretarial ruth signature.
Halper says he played baseball at miami with foxx as his coach. proven to be impossible as foxx left before halper enrolled, and none of the teammates remember halper as he never played basebal there and is not pictured with the team in any photograph.
Halper then says his coach Foxx asked him to come into the office with the sheet because Ott was visiting tomorrow so he brought the sheet into his office for Foxx and Ott to sign.
In another story halper says that he brought the sheet to the field to have Foxx sign it.
Halper had stories on how he obtained both mantles rookie jersey and reggie jackson's rookie jersey. He used these provenance stories to bolster the jerseys until he talked up mantle and reggie and convinced them that this was their rookie jersey and had them sign letters to that effect. Then he dropped his original provenance stories and used mantles and jackson's own signed letters as provenance and Jackson's jersey even had the wrong number on it.
Whether he knew mantles and jackson jersey were definitely fake I don't know, but he knew how to upgrade provenance, that's for sure.