Ty Cobb/Bushing/SCDA/Game-Used Decal Bat

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Posted By: martindl

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With all due respect, have you actually read any of these Bushing threads?

I've got what i think is a decent bat collection myself and have spent plenty of time talking to Dave Bushing. He's helpful, knowledgable and has always seemed to be a good guy.

But......If you forget about who that person is and just look at all the facts, i don't know how you can can make the arguement that because a person is "the foremost bat authenticator in the hobby" and "evey other person on the planet respects his opinion" that his actions are warranted and no one should question them. You didn't say that exactly, but that seems to be your intent.

As a collector of many things i want data and facts that show the item to be what it is. I'm not looking for some trumped up story, even when the story is coming from someone who is an expert; especially when that person is an expert.

a quote
"Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not. We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them."
John Henry Cardinal Newman