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Dan BrettaBill A wrote: "Sorry if my posts have offended. I just hate to see a guy like Plancich who has no credentials make such awful accusations about people who I have found to be quite respectable and do it to an audience who has very little knowledge about the field wherein he has set up his soapbox."
Can you really respect the opinion of someone who authenticates a Louisville Slugger bat to be Ichiro's first bat used in the ML's when photographic and video evidence show that Ichiro took a Mizuno up to the plate? How about authenticating a Rawlings glove as a 1969 gamer when even the Rawlings company says that the glove didn't exist until 5 years later? You've stated that you own a collection of bats, including a game used Cobb bat....It seems to me that you have a lot to lose if the truth about the game used memorabila authentication business is uncovered. All we want to know is how they are authenticating these items.
Before Robert started posting to this board I had never given game used memorabila much thought and always assumed that if the leading experts said it was so then it was so. Now I wouldn't touch any of that stuff without solid provenance. Robert has done the folks on this board a great service. Now I think he should have been forthcoming about the Ruth autograph, but he hasn't written anything on this board that I have found to be false.
Why are so many people afraid of the truth?
Dan Bretta