A question of credibility (Bushing's Degree)

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Posted By: davidcycleback

No one answered my question, repeated below

"My question after reading the evidence used in this thread ("I don't know, but it's possible, so let's assume the worst because we're already made our conclusion"), is this the same level of facts people use to say the DiMaggio bat was bad?"

I don't collect bats, so I don't know the normal methodology that seasoned collectors use to judge the authenticity or lack therof of bats. Most experienced collectors in other areas, like baseball cards or photographs or sclupture or paintings or coins or prints or vases, find out the facts first (like calling up Doug Allen or Dave Bushing and asking if Bushing has a masters) then come up with a conclusion from the known facts. Is the standard methodology the opposite in the game used bat hobby? And, if so, what is the the point of persuing facts if the conclusion has already been made? Is the problem with Jay and Lee and Dan that they took the trip to MatroNet to interview Dan Knoll and Dave Bushing and looked at records and bats and videotape, THEN formed their opinion on the situation? Just curious, because I don't follow the game used bat hobby like others.