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Posted By: Dan Bretta

The "dog and pony show" comment goes back to a thread started a few weeks ago. The video is a sticking point as I would like to see unedited video of that and I'm sure that is something that will be subpeonaed if this goes to court. As I said earlier I still would not have given this bat an A-10, but there was so much thrown around in this forum that was just plain wrong about a lot of things. The pbor's are still owned by H&B and Bushing only has copies of them and he doesn't even have all of the records. He does have access to them though. It was said that he paid $30,000 to the Henrich family for the bat. That was wrong. Much of this stuff was printed by Michael O'Keefe in the New York paper. It was said that Mastro was misleading in how they characterized the relationship between DiMaggio and Henrich and their is no evidence to show this.

I came to the forum to report my conclusions having seen and heard both sides of the story. I don't need snarky comments questioning my integrity from someone who doesn't know me. This forum should be proud that they helped foster change in the hobby regarding disclosure of ownership of authenticated items.