Posted By:
robfouch "In collaboration with Sports Illustrated, REAL SPORTS correspondent Bernard Goldberg examines the history of this tantalizing card and explores the current controversy. Is the new buyer really purchasing the holy grail of collectibles?"
I don't doubt that the HBO reporters will figure it out. I guess I'm just bothered by this blurb on the HBO site trumpeting the piece. It seems pretty cut and dry that it's NOT one of the holy grail cards, so in effect, that ends the story. I mean, this isn't even a good fake.
How it has gotten this far is beyond me.
Hopefully, the Real Sports story will go a different direction and explore the scammer angle, how common this sort of thing is, why eBay's allowing the auction to proceed, etc. Lots of ways this could be made into an interesting story. It's simply that the way the story's trumpeted on the HBO site doesn't seem that compelling to me.
"Is it real?"
"No."
End of story.