Knot Hole Ball with Lou's signature

[steve B]

I agree too. Sometimes information is great for learning, but sometimes it can be misused.

That's one of the reasons I stuck to fairly generic stuff about age in general. The look and feel of something old is very hard to fake even if you know how something should appear.

Some people pick up on that stuff quickly, others never seem to get it. And seeing the actual item often enough is the best way to get familiar with it.
I thought Stradivari were just expensive violins till I saw a couple in a museum along with 2 or 3 from other famous makers. (Nothing like standing next to a glass case containing 20 million or more worth of stuff)
Not only very diferent from anything I'd seen before, but all different from each other.

Sadly knowledge not shared is eventually knowledge lost.

Steve B

[murphusa]

maybe it just could be that all of us so called experts don't really know anything at all. We are all just like the kid in the final episode of St Elsewhere

[bbcard1]

Little known fact. Lou Gehrig had Babe Ruth sign all his knothole gang baseballs....