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Tom Boblitton this issue........
I read somewhere that Rose signed a bunch of them for the guys in Cooperstown at whose store he signs each year around induction ceremonies. I would assume that THEY sold them to Halper or one of their intermediaries and then they sat in the basement till someone decided to call Rob Lifson on them.
Being about 85 miles down the road from Cincinnati, Rose was one of my heroes too and I struggle with his predicament. But there's at least one person in the HOF now who killed someone, drug addicts, others associated with Casino's, Alcoholics, etc, etc. Another thread for debating those merits.....
Rose was obviously (and arguably justifiably) pissed off that someone else was profiting off these balls. Reading a few articles around the time of the Halper sale, he wasn't the only one that was a little miffed that Halper sold a lot of the stuff he'd been given.