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Posted By: Rhys

I deal quite extensively in autographs and my advice to you would be to not authenticate them. I do not see a single ball on your list that will be worth the time and effort. I would simply state that you Guarantee the ball to pass any grading companies authentication service in your ebay auction and let them ride. The difference between authenticating them and not authenticating them "could" be worth it on Mays and Eddie Matthews, and even there we are talking about a small amount, but your chances of the other ones selling for more than the amount of the fee involved is almost zero. That also does not factor in your time in waiting, and shipping charges (unless you drop them off at a show). The only way it might be worth it is if these balls are Dead Mint and you could have PSA grade them. In that case a Mays graded a 9.5 might bring $150.

If you gave the entire lot to an Auction house, they would run them as a lot and authenticate them for you. The lot would probably sell for less than ebay though because there would be 20+ in one group.

You can do whatever you feel comfortable with, but from a purely monetary standpoint, its not going to be worth it to authenticate these.

Rhys