Sports Illustrated Article on Peter Nash and the Hobby

[Leon]

Talk amongst yourselves.....maybe a little "coffee talk?"


http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/the_bonus/12/09/nash/index.html

[base_ball]

Lifson, addressing the rumor of the library theft publicly for the first time, confirms that a kernel of it is true: Thirty-two years ago, he says, he was a precocious minor with too much money and freedom; one day while doing research at the library, high on a mix of drugs and alcohol, he secreted two photographs under a piece of cardboard attached to the outside of his briefcase. He was caught before he could leave the room.

....but he didn't inhale.

[Bosox Blair]

Wild tale indeed - thanks for posting this.

Cheers,
Blair

[calvindog]

Of the $760,000 the court awarded to Lifson, he recouped $506,000 earlier this year when he conducted an unusual court-sanctioned buyer-beware auction of all his remaining Nash-sourced collateral. (The phony business card was not included.) Lifson stated that the most important material could not be approved by authenticators and that he didn't know which items were genuine and which were not. They included the 1897 Hugh Duffy trophy and the 1832 Philadelphia Olympics baseball. All the items were bought by an Arkansas dealer named John Rodgers.

What's the under/over for when these items end up in a Doug Allen auction?

[Rich Klein]

And it's not Werewolves of London

[HRBAKER]

it's already got Lawyers and Money.