On a serious note, though, if you want to laud someone for attempting to clean up the hobby, you should be thanking Peter Nash, and his Hauls of Shame. Outing those who have looted our public archives and libraries, and then sold on their spoils. Outing some serious forgeries that have infiltrated the hobby at the highest level. Outing those who have fooled "the hobby" for years, and have sold their forgeries for millions of dollars (The contents of the "Barry Halper wing" at the Hall of Fame (now thankfully removed--thanks to Nash) were purchased by MLB for nearly ten million dollars for donation to the Hall.)
In addition to publicizing these frauds, his efforts have led to quite a few of the artifacts being returned.
Now there's someone who's doing some good.
(And, please, don't bother me about his past. That's between him and Rob Lifson, and only they know what really happened. (Even if they don't agree.) I'm interested in what he's doing now--which is helping all of us, enormously.)
Last edited by David Atkatz; 01-11-2012 at 07:20 PM.
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