Open Letter To Ted Taylor (TTA/Stat Authentic)

[thetruthisoutthere]

This is an open letter to Mr. Ted Taylor of “TTA Authentic LLC.”

First, Mr. Taylor, I’d like to briefly go over your online résumé. You claim to have well over four decades of experience in the hobby. Well, maybe you can explain to us what you mean by the following statement that is on your website: "We will VERIFY that a signature is/or is NOT authentic based on our experiences over the years." What exactly does that mean?

Also, you have written a few books on the Philadelphia A's so I will assume that you a true fan of baseball and a hobbyist. You have have been employed at Fleer and for a very short time (six months) you were employed at Scoreboard (your responsibilities at Scoreboard are not well known). I read somewhere (an auction site) where you were one of the first people to begin the battle against rampant fraud in the hobby. Maybe you can explain to us when and where you began the fight against fraud in the hobby and who you raged the battle against? Do you still maintain that battle?

Now, there is one thing I am very curious about, Mr. Taylor. You authenticate quite a few autographs every month for Coach's Corner. Many of the autographs you authenticate are autographs that one else but Coach's Corner seem to have in infinite supply and being a true hobbyist as you claim you are, Mr. Taylor, do you ever ask Lee Trythall and Scott Malack where all of the rare vintage autographs that you authenticate and they auction off come from?

Every month you authenticate at least one or two Beatles signed albums for Coach's Corner. Knowing just a how rare Beatles signed albums are do you ever question where they originate from? And what Beatles exemplars do you examine to cert those signatures as authentic? Every month, Mr. Taylor, you authenticate quite a few Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig autograph items. As a person and a hobbyist, Mr. Taylor, do you ever question the dozen or more Babe Ruth autograph items listed by Lee Trythall and Scott Malack each and every month? Don't you, Mr. Taylor, as a hobby purist, have an obligation to ask those questions?

Back in December 2009, Mr. Taylor, Coach's Corner listed a Bonnie Parker/Clyde Barrow cut autograph piece. You authenticated the Barrow cut but not the Parker cut and it sold for $236.00. Did you ever ask yourself why a $10,000 item only sold for $236.00? Don't you have an obligation, Mr. Taylor, to ask Lee Trythall and Scott Malack. how every month they have a signed Barack Obama jersey listed every single month for the past 20 months?

As a collector, Mr. Taylor, I have an obligation to write threads like this and to produce the YouTube videos I make as I do my part to try to keep the hobby clean. Your obligation now and remains, Mr. Taylor, is to explain why you have authenticated literally hundreds of Babe Ruth signed items that have been consigned to Coach's Corner. Have you ever questioned (and I apologize for being redundant), Mr. Taylor, all of the Babe Ruth autographed baseballs and bats that have passed through your hands for examination that you have authenticated as being genuine autographs of "The Babe?"

Christy Mathewson passed away in October 1925. His signature on anything is extremely rare, but yet you have authenticated quite a few Christy Mathewson autographed baseballs. One Christy Mathewson signed baseball that you certed sold for a paltry $1,478.00. Awhile back an authentic Christy Mathewson signed baseball sold for $50,600.00. Can you please explain that discrepancy in final bid price, Mr. Taylor. Have you ever wondered, Mr. Taylor, why your Stat Authentic COA is still on Ebay's banned list? I could go on and on, Mr. Taylor, but I will end this by showing another Christy Mathewson signed baseball that you authenticated for Coach's Corner. We would love to hear from you, Mr. Taylor.

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[GrayGhost]

Well said Chris, but he won't have the guts to reply. And you didn't even mention Morales also. But, I always thought this guy Taylor had a good reputation, but maybe he's getting paid enough to sell the rep down the River, or he just doesn't know sigs, or a combo of both.

[sports-rings]

Can't be that he does not know signatures, since his largest customers (coaches corner) keeps feeding him endless supplies of Babe Ruth Balls and other garbarge.

[tinkereversandme]

As a person who used to go to quite a few baseball card shows in the early 1980's to the middle of the 1990's, I enjoy collecting and seeing early flyers and broadsides announcing up coming card shows. Something neat about seeing Mickey Mantle charge four dollars for a signature. At a Cleveland National a few years back, they had a display of neat items that date back to the early 1970's. One name mentioned on several pieces was in fact Ted Taylor.

It is really unfortunate that a person who played such an important role in forming these shows, has in fact become what he has become today. If HBO Real Sports had exposed me, I would have packed up my bags and left the business, but none of them did, so why should he be any different. It's easy money. I would ask him instead is: How can you live with yourself?

Regards,

Larry

[keithsky]

The Feds need to bust just one of them and they would all fall like dominos. How great would that be.

[thetruthisoutthere]

I will admit that my disdain for Mr. Taylor is both infinite and beyond comprehension. You cannot claim to be "one of the people who wears the white hat in the hobby" while never questioning Lee Trythall and Scott Malack (Coach's Corner) about the same Babe Ruth signed bats, jerseys and baseballs that pass through Mr. Taylor's hands every month. One day, Mr. Taylor, you will have to explain to the hobby why you have never questioned Coach's Corner infinite inventory of vintage autographed items that pass through their auction house (and your hands) every month. Your claim of having four decades of hobby experience as a hobbyist holds no water in my opinion, Mr. Taylor. It's all been negated, Mr. Taylor. Maybe you can explain to us what exemplars and experience you used to come to the decision that the below item (authenticated by you) is genuine?

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[Lucas00]

My question is, are the psa certs fake as well? They coincidentally make the picture just blurry enough so you can't read the sticker. I know they have a loophole with their regular fake items with dungeon based COAs. But faking PSA certs would certainly be fraudulent without question no?