1896-1911 Detroit Tigers Bennett Park Vendor Badge

[Shoeless Moe]

Originally Posted by batsballsbases

Oh and by the way DUDE court may be adjourned but the jury is still out on how you conduct yourself here... And also I found it funny how you posted it up on the other board even after this man said he wanted to buy it. Then you took it down after Howard Usher posted in your post I believe it doesnt look good. Cant check it because you deleted it....

Once again you are wrong. I posted it here and there at the same time. Just more eyeballs on it. After Howard posted his comment he and I talked back and forth, I sent him some examples, he expressed his knowledge on these, he also is a "group expert" on that Site.

His reasons and expertise were very solid, no reason for me to doubt him. I then deleted the Post, why keep it up. It was no longer for sale and heading back to the seller.

What business is it of yours anyway? Are you the Board Police here?

[batsballsbases]

Originally Posted by Shoeless Moe

Once again you are wrong. I posted it here and there at the same time. Just more eyeballs on it. After Howard posted his comment he and I talked back and forth, I sent him some examples, he expressed his knowledge on these, he also is a "group expert" on that Site.

His reasons and expertise were very solid, no reason for me to doubt him. I then deleted the Post, why keep it up. It was no longer for sale and heading back to the seller.

What business is it of yours anyway? Are you the Board Police here?

Nope no board police here.... Just know I would never buy Jack from you DUDE...

[Shoeless Moe]

Originally Posted by batsballsbases

Nope no board police here.... Just know I would never buy Jack from you DUDE...

Not a problem whatsoever dude.

[Keith H. Thompson]

that Keith H. Thompson is a senile, gullible fool. Probably true. I have no defense.

Yes, I stand by my time line. The messages were done by email, hence unverifiable. These are now irrelevant to the end game.

I am grateful to Shoeless Moe for arranging for the eventual acquisition of the Vendor's Badge which is currently in progress.

As to authentic, it is easy to see how an appraiser would be doubtful since the lettering is uneven, even amateurish. Yet, I have never seen another "genuine" badge for comparison, and I find it hard to believe that a forger would choose such an obscure item for such relatively little compensation. To me it looks "right," but maybe I'm too close to the subject and just want to believe because I am a serious collector of baseball stadium artifacts and have nice examples of seats from the 14 stadiums that the 16 original teams played in, say around 1950. Mostly aisle end whenever available, including the Polo Grounds and Ebbets Field. But no chair from Bennett Park although I do have early Haywood-Wakefield examples from Navin Field. I also have Sam Thompson's widows lifetime pass to Bennett Park. Thus, the Vendor's Badge is important to me, and cost is not the problem.

Lest my love of old Baseball Stadiums be doubted, I recently went to a game at historic Grayson Park to see the "Savannah Bananas" play a "game" vs the "Party Animals." Details available upon request. For me, sitting on an original wooden bench with umpteen layers of paint, a stadium where Jackie Robinson and Hank Aaron once played, is what I enjoy most. Food and drink is free inside the park, you can exit and reenter at will, they don't bother to check tickets on entrance, and the game is a joke, but the stadium is real.

But, I betray again my "gullible, old fool" status.