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Posted By: barrysloate

Hey guys- let me yet again clear up some of the mysteries of the endlessly debated Cy Young Just So. Yes, it does exist, I have both held it and have a photocopy of it. The hoard of Just So's that it came with ( a total of seven) was purchased by this "mystery" collector after he read an article about them in SCD and hounded the family for years until they finally agreed to sell him all seven. Since he is a good friend of mine he consigned the other six to one of my 1998 auctions and five of them ended up in one collection; it would have been part of the "Southern Gentleman" collection that Mastro had in 2000 but they were sold privately by the owner before the auction. They are now dispersed around the hobby.
Also, disparaging the validity of the cards in my friend's great collection because they have not been slabbed is a silly and fallacious statement. He has been both a sophisticated and knowledgable collector for his entire life and believes that he can make his own determination about whether his cards are both authentic and untampered. I know them well and can trace most of them back to their previous owners. I can tell you they are all real and those with obvious and visible flaws- he knows that the Creighton and Brooklyn Atlantics are trimmed- are no secret to anyone. They don't need slabs that read "authentic." THEY ARE AUTHENTIC, no more need be said. And interestingly, cards are not even the focus of this great collection- they might be just the tip of the iceberg of perhaps the greatest historical collection ever assembled.
I hope those who are doubting the authenticity of the Cy Young are doing so tongue in cheek, because take it from me- and I've been around the baseball card block a few times- it's real and it's spectacular (I know at least a few Seinfeld fans get my drift).