opinion on McCarthy autograph

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Posted By: pete ullman

My assistant gave me this for my b-day a few years ago and I have no idea if it's real or not? The only autographs I have were aquired first hand or through the family. Any help would be appreciated.

pete in mn

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Posted By: Brian Weisner

Here is mine..

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Posted By: identify7

Looks like it is time to thank your assistant.

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Posted By: pete ullman

HAAAAH HAAAAAAH! SHE QUIT OVER A YEAR AGO AND I'VE NEVER BEEN HAPPIER! THANKS BRIAN.

PETE IN MN

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Posted By: Richard Simon

Looks good to me.

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Posted By: Sean

Pete,
Are you still looking for an assistant? I'm your man!

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Posted By: pete ullman

realy? there aren't many male dental assistants out there?!?! Actually I'm very happy with the one I have now...unless you'll give me vintage bb cards for gifts then I may have to reconsider!

pete in mn

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Posted By: Sean

I was thinking more of a personal assistant, you know a guy who runs around buying/searching for cards, dry cleaner runs, getting the Bentley a car was...that kind of stuff.

I guess I could clean teeth...you don't any kinda license for that do ya?

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Posted By: pete ullman

that's funny...a personal assistant!!!! You'd have a pretty boring job...and I couldn't pay you much. I could pay you in 1991 upper deck commons!

pete in mn

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Posted By: Sean

Is Jeff Bagwell in that set?

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Posted By: pete ullman

BAGWELL ROOKIE!!!!!!

PETE IN MN

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Posted By: Sean

When can I start?

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Posted By: RickHastings

I have a '39 "who's who in baseball" that my dad personally had autographed. He lived by Sportsman's Park in St. Louis and was an autograph hound back then, so I know all of the autographs in this book are authentic.
This autograph looks good to me,but I am no expert.

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Posted By: davidcycleback

In general, when you have multi-signed item, especially including common players, the average collector can get sense of overall authenticity by comparing the common player signatures to known authentic examples. If the common and obscure players' signatures look good, that's always a good sign. Forgers are spending the hours and hours perfecting their signatures of Joe DiMaggio and Jimmie Foxx, not Dick Bartell and Don Aase.

I'm no autograph expert, but know that there is no requirement that a collector buy Babe Ruth or Ty Cobb cuts. If some said to me, "I would really like to collect baseball cards, but there are so many forged Fro Joy Babe Ruths on the market," I would say "You can't collect 1963 Topps commons because of forged 1928 Fro Joys?" You can have just as much if not more fun purchasing autographs checks, contracts, letters and certified cards of Dick Bartell, Cory Snyder and Phil Garner.