I dont know the seller and certainly am not picking on him. It would not matter to me one bit who the seller was, but there simply is no way this was a Black Baseball pennant. He provided a ton of evidence to support that the PCL (huge league with TONS of money) and of course Major League Teams were making pennats but black teams and low level Minor League teams simply were ot making pennants in the 1910's. Where they played their games means nothing, it is all about the dollar and Black Baseball was not big enough business until well into the 1920's to even consider an item like this as a money maker. I stand behind everything I said above, because it is correct. Sometimes people want something to be true so badly that they find ways to justify their beliefs without compromising their morals. I do not believe this seller is a dishonest person or bad in any way, I just think they refuse to look at this item objectively because they have a vested interest in its outcome.
This (if actually an "ABC's" pennant) would be a $20,000 item. Why did it sell for $765? Because the free market spoke loud and clear and only a handful of people refused to listen. No major auction house will ever touch this item, but by chance one of them did I would say the SAME THINGS to them.
Nothing against the seller, I dont know the guy from Adam, but what I said is correct no matter who is trying to sell it.
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