Mel Ott Bat Stolen at National

[Shoeless Moe]

do the public have access to a 40K bat being graded?........I would doubt it......sounds like an inside job at PSA to me.

[Jay Wolt]

Originally Posted by Shoeless Moe

do the public have access to a 40K bat being graded?........I would doubt it......sounds like an inside job at PSA to me.

John Taube authenticates for PSA but is a private enterprise, so not sure he was even hooked up alongside PSA's booth.
Same w/ Steve Hart that would authenticate unopened packs for PSA.

I spent some time at PSA's booth on Thursday but didn't see Taube's booth next to them.
Not sure where John was in relation to PSA who was in the corporate section.

Scott, I hope you can recover your bat and get compensated for your aggravation, and that the thief gets jail time.
That would be a happy ending.

[packs]

How did this play out? You put it on the table and walked away and someone took it? Or did someone take it from behind the guy's table? I have had a lot of items authenticated and graded at shows and the item has always been tagged and bagged right in front of me. Scary.

[CW]

Originally Posted by Shoeless Moe

do the public have access to a 40K bat being graded?........I would doubt it......sounds like an inside job at PSA to me.

I was also thinking inside job, but maybe somebody that works for the convention center -- someone with access to the place after hours who might've been able to go through a few booths in the wee hours of the morning.

Good luck with this, Scott, and I hope your bat shows up soon.

[travrosty]

they need to take a bait bat, a replica-say babe ruth, but a convincing replica, hollow it out , put in a transmitter lojack type system, put the bat out, wait until it gets swiped, then as soon as the transmitter moves, swoop in and grab the guy.

[pclpads]

Originally Posted by travrosty

they need to take a bait bat, a replica-say babe ruth, but a convincing replica, hollow it out , put in a transmitter lojack type system, put the bat out, wait until it gets swiped, then as soon as the transmitter moves, swoop in and grab the guy.

How diabolical! You should be in the spook biz.

[Scott Garner]

Originally Posted by pclpads

How diabolical! You should be in the spook biz.

+1

[MGHPro]

Scott
I certainly feel for you. I had a bat stolen off my table in Cleveland 3 years ago. My advice, take these posts down, get them out of google and yahoo searches and wait patiently. Everyone knows what happens and when the person who took it feels like the pressure is off, it will show up one way or another. Whether it's sold locally and then sent in to an auction or authentication, but just try to keep it out of the headlines and let it play out. Mine surfaced almost a year after it was stolen.

In regards to other posts, I can see where you think having off duty security is the answer, but with what these shows cost to do, know one would drop extra money to have security.

I do think the show promoters need to beef up security a lot. I saw security pass by our booth maybe 5 times this week. Plus the security people I saw, didn't look like the would be able to stop a thief if there was a situation.

Hope the bat turns up sooner than later.

[blades3]

Taube is a private business and had his table in the front of the room, which is about as far away from PSA's booth as you could possibly get. PSA takes submissions immediately into the back of its booth and keeps them under lock and key, but this didn't happen anywhere near their booth. I'd like to know when and how this happened (during the show, what distracted him, etc.). I hope the bat turns up, this would be horrible to go through.