I think the point of my post has gotten a bit lost in the chatter.
I am concerned that unscrupulous people are taking advantage of the influx of IP Koufax autos from Spring Training to forge ones of their own and submit to TPA. Even if he did sign 100 autos a day at Spring Training, he was only there for 5 days and I know he didn't sign each day. Plus take into the account that not everyone gets a baseball autographed, and most people will keep the auto for their own collection etc...
I have seen people selling a dozen (12) sloppy Koufax autos on ebay over and over again with TPA certs. That is what concerns me. Shouldn't a red flag be raised by the TPA when somebody is submitting a couple dozen IP Koufax autos?
Also I agree, I would never purchase this auto. It is ugly, and I still think it shouldn't have been authenticated. But that is my opinion.
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