Can't blame you for being pissed off at them... I would be too. Regarding the '27 Yankee Ball, I believe that the Spence LOA was executed pretty much during his "infancy period" (when he was still a one-man show). Is that right? I dont think there's much chance it would have passed, knowing what they know today. Apparently (and unfortunately) it fooled a lot of smart people at the time...
To Travis' point, the CC threads also get monotonous, and there have been numerous valid complaints about their frequency and redundancy.
The reason that there is more of a backlash against attacking the "Big Two" is (IMO) two-fold...
1. They get it right well over 90% of the time. Their mistakes are typically honest mistakes. Granted, there may be some dumb ones and brain-lapses, but there is not the criminal intent (which cannot be said for the "other guys").
2. To go after the honest faction of authenticators hurts the hobby long-term. If new collectors are shying away from this endless negativity, the autograph collecting world will shrink and fizzle. Not good for any of the parties reading this...
Yes- they do make mistakes. It's the nature of those mistakes that differentiates the two.
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