Let the experiment begin...

[benjulmag]

Here is Brett's description of the card as posted on eBay:

"Up for bid is a 1912 T202 Hassan Triple Folder card professionaly graded PSA 4 VG/EX ! The card is titled "Lord Catches His Man" and it features Lord and Tannehill on the side panels as well as what is now known to be a picture of Shoeless Joe Jackson sliding into 3rd base on the center panel. This card is nearly 100 years old and was just recently discovered to feature Shoeless Joe from his early days in Cleveland. His cards are considered to be among the rarest and most sought after in the hobby and the value will surely be going up."

The poll conducted on this board shows 20% of those responding regard the center panel as definitely depicting Jackson. 80% would characterize there being reasonable doubt, and 50% would quantity the doubt as exceeding a one in ten probability. This poll was conducted at the conclusion of a 500 post thread discussing every conceivable aspect of the issue, thus making the poll participants as informed as any poll participants can reasonably be about an issue. While, to be clear, it more likely than not is Jackson in that middle panel, I don't think it is honest to say it is "now known to be a picture of Shoeless Joe Jackson sliding into 3rd base on the center panel". It is one thing for Brett to say he is certain is Jackson. That makes it his opinion, which he is entitled to hold and to which people can agree or disagree. But by using the phrase "it is now known", he is saying the hobby regards it as a certainty, which is simply not true.

That said, it was a predictable as the sun rising in the east that we would see sellers of this card resort to these tactics.