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In the "You can only give advice, you can't make people take it" department,
I was at an auction this morning where several pieces of memorabilia were available including a Mickey Mantle autographed, K-55 Louisville Slugger. Signed Mickey Mantle, 18 WS HRs, 1956 Triple Crown. Comes with a full certification from the immortal Christopher Morales. I was talking to several people who expressed interest in it. Explained that, in my opinion, a Morales COA is worse than no COA, and why. Maybe these folks thought that I was trying to talk them out of it because I was going after it. Two guys said that they were going up to $2000 on it. One insisted that if it was fake it would just be the signature without the added notations. Whatever. I tried. This looked like a fairly nice collection but after seeing the one piece, I figured they were probably all Coach's Corner specials and left.