Two hour interview with.... Bill Mastro

Peter_Spaeth · #1 10-18-2024, 05:40 PM

In this 2001 piece by O'Keeffe, Ray refused to say where he got it. Also note Mastro's adamant denial.

https://www.t206museum.com/page/periodical_19.html

G1911 · #2 10-18-2024, 06:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

In this 2001 piece by O'Keeffe, Ray refused to say where he got it. Also note Mastro's adamant denial.

https://www.t206museum.com/page/periodical_19.html

I do not have a copy of O�Keefe�s book anymore, I recycled mine. The Florida speculation/story is included and mentioned in some articles in promotion of the book you can pull online if you want. I doubt I can trace it to the first appearance, and I doubt O�Keefe was the first claimant as I�ve heard this since the late 90�s.

The Long Island claimant was asked for evidence they claimed to posses over and over on this board and refused to ever divulge it. This was a lie, it possibly is from NY (it probably was in 1909!) but it isn�t because of this claim.

I have no clue what the actual truth is, and nobody has ever given anything to prove it. I have no reason to doubt the long standing story especially, nor to argue that it is the truth. I don�t know where it is actually from, we probably never really will at this remove. That�s the point, that we lost a lot of history that we aren�t likely to be able to find anywhere else because this unique item of immense value to research was cut up and ruined for some bucks, and no information preserved. It is quite unfortunate for us all.

BillyCoxDodgers3B · #3 10-19-2024, 06:38 AM

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Originally Posted by G1911

I do not have a copy of book anymore, I recycled mine.

The best thing you could have possibly done, seeing as the days of the outhouse are behind us.

G1911 · #4 10-19-2024, 12:35 PM

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Originally Posted by BillyCoxDodgers3B

The best thing you could have possibly done, seeing as the days of the outhouse are behind us.

I considered the outhouse, but I thought that would be insulting to excrement. His infatuation with Lifson and a number of errors about cards were forgivable, but spending much of the text implying card collectors are racists because they are able to recognize obvious reprints was just too dumb to waste bookshelf space with.

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