February Roach's Corner auction is LIVE now

[GrayGhost]

Pick out a favorite, save your money and Bid bid bid..All guaranteed by Scrap Authentic and Chris "Id authenticate an Adam and Eve signature" Morales. A Matty signed ball w inscriptions starts us off and how bout a PLANK SIGNED BALL? hehe.

http://www.myccsa.com/Lot/203/eddie-...-baseball.aspx

Be sure to post your favorite items

[2dueces]

Too funny. I'm sure everyone knows, but from great articles and research signed balls pre dating 1920 are unheard of. It was not a practice done in the day and told by ball players that played. But the Roach can come up with some really rare items, 10 at a time.

Edit to add: I'm refering to the Matty ball dated 1905.

[mr2686]

They have some real tough ones this time around...I especially like the fact that they have 2 Tim Keefe's. Roaches Corner must be the best because they always have the scarce and impossible autographs...and at rock bottom prices

[perezfan]

I'll say what nobody wants to say about this shady outfit (as it's way more fun to criticize the really bad items). But some of the items (albeit very few) actually look good. Is there any chance that some unsuspecting collector consigns a "good" piece to Coach's Corner and that Morales or STAT authenticate it? Some "fringe" autograph collectors may be incredibly naive and think this is a good place to consign.

If so, what percent of Morales/STAT authenticated mdse. is actually good? I will set this up as a New Thread/poll question, and please be honest with your answers. There have been a very few pieces that apprear to be authentic, and have the STAT/Morales blessing, so this may be interesting...

[tinkereversandme]

What you should do is simply click below and here are all the wonderful items authenticated by Morales:

http://www.myccsa.com/Search.aspx?SearchText=morales

My favorites: Christy Mathewson Single Signed Baseball, Geronimo Cut Signature, Babe Ruth Signed Jersey, Josh Gibson Single Signed Baseball, Tour Of Japan Signed Bat, Lou Gehrig Signed Jersey, Christy Mathewson Signed Book, ANY 19th Century Scrap Of Paper Signed (Keeler, Chesbro, Ewing, Keefe, Hamilton, Anson +) and how do they get so many complete signed sports items like jerseys?

In buying autographs, the most important thing is the source. Do you think Lifson and the big boys are looking for a deal here? There is a reason why none of this stuff ends up in their auctions and sells for almost nothing. After all, all the items above are limited to Coach's only and wouldn't Robert Edward like a few of these items?

My favorite thing last month was that they had a Walter Payton signed card PSA/DNA slabbed and it sold for $167 and a 1967 Roberto Clemente Topps card sold for $163.

The Payton is valued at around $125 and the Clemente at around $1500-2000.

You would think that this kind of research (if they believed their stuff was authentic) would have them approach the business as if...they used PSA/DNA, it could improve their sales...but these guys know what they are doing. They are all smarter than us.

My two cents...

Larry

[keithsky]

It's funny because last months auction they had a Ruth and gehrig signed ball that was PSA authenticated as lot number1 that went for something like 15,000.00. If it was Stat or Morales it would have been about half that or less. Wouldn't you think as a auction company seeing the prices realized with a PSA or JSA item you would dump Morales and Stat in a heartbeat. Something more going on there than we all know.