[RichardSimon]

One telling incident for me involves a former neighbor of mine who became a close personal friend.
To make a long story short, he was a turnstile boy at Ebbets Field and a gofer on the Babe Ruth radio show. He hung around at the Ansonia Hotel (where Ruth had a room for extra curricular actiivty) and would get in person autographs from the Babe. He also got TTM autographs from a number of other HOFers.
He eventually sold me a part of his collection including over a dozen Ruth autographs on various mediums and a number of other HOFers. It was my greatest find.
I sold them to a number of people. Two of these Ruth items, which were absolutely gotten in person, were knocked down by PSA. One of the items was then, at my suggestion, submitted to an auction house which has its own in house experts, and they took it in immediately, authenticated it and did sell it.
The other item was held onto and eventually sold by the person I sold it to, he did not want a refund because he knew the story behind the piece and trusted my opinion and my story of how I acquired the item instead of PSA's rejection.