You guys have got to see this! Tony Podsada discussing Mickey Mantle. FUNNY

[Leon]

Originally Posted by Fuddjcal

http://live.autographmagazine.com/fo...age=2#comments

Probably one of the most informative threads on Mantle I have seen in sometime and I'm sure many of you dealers and collectors will get a chuckle out of it, or maybe have something constructive to add?

That is kind of interesting....

[RichardSimon]

Where is Tim Fitzsimmons when you really need him?

[Econteachert205]

Worth reading all comments etc. entertaining and informative.

[shelly]

It is not entertaining when have a man lie and lie with no regards to the fact that all those pieces shown are fake. You dont need the tpa people to tell you that.
When he was arrested by the IRS he told them that he had no items left. Now for the last six years thousands of pieces have been sold by him and his friends. Those items where never sold by Score Board. Or given to him by Score Board.
As far as Mickey is concerned he said all the Marino items looked authentic as well. I can tell you that for a fact.
He can not in any way show they are authentic unless any of you want to take the word of Morales and the rest of the people who authenticate for him.

[shelly]

Ok, lets us say he is telling the truth. He made his settlement in 1991 did he get forty thousand Mantles. Because that is about how many he has sold in the last 24 years. Even after Mantle died he has sold thousands of them and no end in sight.
Ken how many did Mantle sign for your dad?

[kengoldin]

Shelly (and all)
I was talking to Chris Williams today, and the thing about the Mantle contracts is that the price to get a baseball signed was only a few dollars more then a ball (I believe one contract it was $5 more for a ball then a flat 11x14 or smaller)
With this in mind, the majority of items signed by mantle were NOT photos. Everyone wanted a signed Mantle BALL, and that's what mostly he signed. In fact, I believe less then 10 different images were ever signed by Mantle for Score Board, and we only used Photo File to produce them, no one else.
Only a very small percentage of the autographs were ever even signed on photos under the Mantle contract. I have seen at least 20 different images that were never signed by Mantle under his score board agreement,not even one photo, which the seller is purporting to be from the Score Board Mantle contract.

[kengoldin]

Originally Posted by shelly

Ok, lets us say he is telling the truth. He made his settlement in 1991 did he get forty thousand Mantles. Because that is about how many he has sold in the last 24 years. Even after Mantle died he has sold thousands of them and no end in sight.
Ken how many did Mantle sign for your dad?

40,000 as part of the settlement huh?
here is the court order against him...2 of them
one in 1992, and one in 1994.
Where does he get ANY inventory? Hopefully this attachment uploads properly.
Looks to me like he was restrained from selling forgeries.
that worked out well

damn, file to big to upload....the court cases are in the other forum thread however

[Fuddjcal]

What I believe is plain to see from the interaction with Tony Podsada is that he is the one that has been behind the flood of forgeries for many many years. This is my assessment of the situation:

1) When he started with that slop, He went to JSA & PSA. According to Tony, James Spence apparently authenticated some back in 2000-2001 or so when he was fairly green. When Tony showed James Spence the other 30,000 he had on his kitchen table, he clammed up and ran like rabbit with thorn in paw. LOL As would any legitimate authenticator.

2) He then took the garbage to Richard Simon who authenticated some and Richard will have to fill in the blanks as to how many & how long it took him to realize he'd been had. What sets Richard apart from TPA's is that he admitted as such. We look at them today, 15 years after the fact and can spot them easily. We've all been fooled at one time with this, but the more you look at them, the more they just stand out like a sore thumb.

3) He then went to GAI and sold them his bill of goods. They were struggling at the time and Tony helped put them right out of business.

4) When all the legitimate sources soured on them, out came the Nicholas Burczyk chronicles. After that was shut down, he sold his fish tales to Christopher Morales. Moraless was over matched or in on the scheme.

5) After Morales's reputation was trashed and known only for Authentication of Forgeries, it was on to the sell the "story" to Ted Taylor & Scott Mallack of STAT Authentic & Drew Maxx of AAU. They were exactly like Moraless as all they did was rubber stamp forgeries.

6)While all this was going on, he was selling these obvious forgeries with his own COA's from My Favorite Forgeries and let's not forget his other wonderful companies who has certified nothing but forgeries, Myst-O-graph & YMC Sports (LOL)

7) as his network was growing or slowing, we then started to see others fall into the same trap, like CSC Collectibles & Autograph Legends. The certificates all used the EXACT same verbiage. Then we got a laugh as My Favorite Forgeries was "REBORN"

8) PAAS actually Passed, in 2012 when he continued to try a pass that ridiculous story that someone in Mickey Mantle's Family signed everything we know to be authentic, while he held 30,000 authentic ones, albeit cartoonish machine drawn on cheap media. . As I have stated in the end, the eyes don't lie & where are all the personalizations with Tony's cartoonish style hiding? (Maybe coming to a website near you)

9) at the same time another entity sprung up that is still going on today, Guaranteed Forgery Authentics (GFA). They are still very pathetic and the signature is evolving somehow to try and make it better. Still it' get's worse They are running rough-shot through E-bay, Always Fake at Auction and the Military Exchanges. The usual outlets for these cheap forgeries.