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Posted By: Todd Evans

I am not a Mastro apologist nor am I a Mastro hater, but I can tell you the situation with the Jordan shooting shirt is not right. I have had been a customer and consignor with Mastros for 8 or 9 years now and I have also had an experience with them knowingly selling a bad item.

I was the one who called and questioned Mastros on the Darrell Griffith University of Louisville game used jersey" that was in the October of 2006 auction. When I saw the auction I called up and spoke to Brian Marren and told him why I thought this item was no good and that I wanted to see documentation on what Lou Lampson used to authenticate this particular jersey. I also provided him with pictures detailing that Griffith did not wear this type of jersey while playing at U of L. I was told that he would get with Lou and pass on this info to him. A couple of days later which was well before the auction was supposed to end I inquired about the findings and was told that Lou is staying with his opinion that the jersey was good and that he would not pull the auction. I was also told that they couldn't pull the jersey as it could cause legalality issues. I then contacted a person within the sports department at U of L and provided her with pictures of the jersey. It just so happened that the particular day I sent this Darrell Griffith was in her office where she showed him the pictures and he told her that they did'nt wear mesh jerseys while he played there. In fact they did not begin wearing mesh jerseys until 2-3 years later well after his #35 was retired by the university. This info and email from the university was passed on to Mastros and Lou Lampson but the jersey was still sold in that auction. When an auction house wants to side with a person that has experienced questionable abilities to properly document authentic jerseys to the person that actually supposedly wore the item then I have a big problem with it.

Take this latest information about the Jordan jersey for what it's worth but I highly question what really happened. I can also tell you that alot of the questionable things that has happened concerning Mastros has caught the attention of the FBI as I was contacted just this week by an agent from Chicago concerning the Griffith jersey. Hopefully Mastros will take greater steps in the future to authenticate ALL items before someone pays alot of money for something worthless.

Todd Evans