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Posted By: Lee Behrens

Dan and Jay have covered pretty much everything that happened at the meeting. The responses by the handful here were expected. The big fact that swayed me towards this being a Streak bat was the fact that the bat a a wieght on the bottom of the bat and had to be specifically asked for and was added to the notes on the order, a lomited number were ordered this way (22 I believe). The time frame of the bat order and when the bat receieved by HEinrich is what conviced me that There is a very strong possiblity that it is a streak bat. I also do not believe it should not have got a A10. There is NO definitive way of authenticating memoribilia, but there is alot of strong eveidence indicating that this is a streak bat.

Troy, Dan and Dave have no preconceived notition that there is always a window that any item is not what it is said to be. This is why they have started SCDA authenicated. They hide no fact in how an item is authenicated and will give the submitted the evidence and a checklist to the grade they applied. This is exactly what everyone wants from the card grading companies and they are doing it in there business. Our flights were paid for by SCDA out of there pockets. They made no sales pitch just presented there case and we asked the questions (many of which were answered before we asked in there presentation).

What I got out of Dave Bushing from the initial sale of the bat is that they had authenticated it sold it to a customer (had bought bats preivously from him) at a show and on the way out the a comment was made to the gentleman about Dimaggio batting left handed, this prompted him to bring it back to Dave at which point he gave him his money back. As far as why didn't he do deep research right away I guess only Dave can answer that. but as to the fact he did do the research after the encounter and it turned out quite fruitful. Dave had the opportunity to turn the bat quickly for a profit but circumstance change teh whole situation. If this gentleman that bought it at the show had just left it would be just another Dimaggio bat. They did bring along 3 other original Dimagio bats, so thes guys have handled Dimaggio bats in the past and none magically became the streak bat.

I also want to reaffirm a fact Dan Berretta pointed out is that after it was deemed a streak bat, they rework the deal with the Heinrich family to there satisfaction, they were not obligated to do this. The "leap of Faith" is a part of buying memorabilia of this type and is accepted in these transactions. to what degree the "Leap of Faith" is has alot to do with the price. Unless you received the item personally there is really no way to prove in your mind that it actually is what some says it is. Having eveidence to back up the authenticity of the item is what takes an item from an A1 to A10.

Everyone can form their own opinion, I was very skepitcal going into this and came out of this with all the evidence presented that there was every reason to believe that this has a very strong possibilty of being a streak bat.

As far as those of you that used the excuse that you do not have the time to go meet with them and see them same thing we did. I work 6 days a week, I went on my one day off. It was all done in one day and they were more than willing to work around the schedules of those who wish to have gone. Instead of just writing of all this sceptictism everyone had the opportunity to go to this and SCDA is willing to meet with anyone at a show they are set up at, they do ask that you give advance notice. The "horse and pony show" was a reference to the early thread.

I give Troy, Dan Knoll, the people at Mastro auction and Dave Bushing a thank you for taking there time to give us this opportunity. We got in the way many times at Mastro but the people were very nice and approachable.


We went to Chicago to see all the facts and here from the people involved. We did that formed our own conclusions, which for turned out that we all came to the conclusion that they were justified in naming the bat a streak bat.

Lee Behrens
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