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Posted By: scott brockelman
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Posted By: Dan Bretta
I won't buy it because I don't like the author, but I may read it if my library gets the book. I probably won't have to read it anyway because I imagine this chatroom will get the lowdown shortly after the book is released. |
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Posted By: Peter Spaeth
Book Description |
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Posted By: barrysloate
Counterfeiters and con men- that already sounds juicy! |
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Posted By: John
Might be a good read, but one has to wonder how reliable the authors are when in the very description of the book they already have the facts wrong… |
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Posted By: howard
I doubt the authors wrote that book description. More likely it's a publicity release written by an employee of the book's publisher. "A few dozen" is an estimate pretty likely to be found if "T206 Honus Wagner" is entered in a search engine. |
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Posted By: Dan Bretta
Don't be so sure...this is the same author who lied about N54 in his story about the two dudes and their fake Wagner. |
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Posted By: JimB
As a published book author myself, I would assume the authors did write the blurb. It may have been lightly edited to add a sensationalistic quality, but my guess is the details are the author's. I am not bothered by the estimate of a few dozen. I find it funny that they say it was auctioned on Ebay for over a million dollars. I remember that there were links to all the lots in that REA/Mastro auction to Ebay, but there was a higher BP on all bids placed on ebay and I am sure nobody bid on that card via ebay. |
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Posted By: Scott Elkins
We have spoken on the phone several times over the last few years while he was working on this book and I truly believe he was after the truth on this book. I don't know the co-author. |
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Posted By: Dan Bretta
Michael O'Keeffe wrote in his newspaper column: "On Network 54, an Internet vintage card forum, the reaction was mixed. Some collectors were angry that Cobb and Edwards weren't dismissed as crooks. |
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Posted By: barrysloate
Mike O'Keefe interviewed me and he seemed like a reasonable guy. But if he really made that comment about Cobb and Edwards and racial prejudice, then I have to assume the book was poorly researched. If he said Cobb and Edwards were paranoid and felt the world was against them, I would feel better about it. |
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Posted By: peter ullman
i can't imagine it breaks much if any ground on what most of us already know about THE CARD. if the book is anything like the little synopsis there...i won't be reading it. |
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Posted By: barrysloate
Peter- most people don't know the history of the card as well as we do. |
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Posted By: peter ullman
you're correct barry...but besides us...who cares enough to buy a book about it!!!!! I got no email...did you send it to brian by accident?!?! |
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Posted By: barrysloate
I sent you two and you got neither...something was wrong with my computer this morning. Your box arrived, thank you. |
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Posted By: peter ullman
thank YOU. |
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Posted By: Scott Elkins
I asked Mike about what he had written right after that. He was not even aware what he had written about the two guys and the fake Wagner had been changed by his editor and was mad when I had him read the final outcome - stating "that is not what I wrote". Mike even agreed with me on the phone that EVERYONE on Net 54 was angry at those two guys and what they were trying to do. The only thing Mike and I didn't agree on was the tone of racist remarks in the thread. I didn't see the tone of "racist remarks". However, when Mike pointed out to me where a Net 54 member had referred to the two as "boys", I could understand his point a little better. |
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Posted By: Dan Bretta
If you believe his editor changed that then you are falling for another of his lies. |
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Posted By: Scott Elkins
To see if Mike has been a straight shooter with me or not, as I know a lot of what SHOULD be in the book! I will give him the benefit of the doubt until I see otherwise. |
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Posted By: barrysloate
Mike interviewed me and some of my friends, and I know the background of the card pretty well, so as Scott says, let's see how the book comes out first. |
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Posted By: Dan Bretta
You guys can give him the benefit of the doubt....I only wish I would have saved his emails to me because I would be very tempted to break Leon's rules about posting emails to N54. I might add that he's too dumb to even put a title on his emails so if you get one from him it might get kicked into your spam collector. |
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Posted By: barrysloate
How did I get tangled up in this one? |
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Posted By: jay behrens
Whether you like it or not, you are part of every thread, Barry |
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Posted By: peter chao
Guys, |
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Posted By: leon
I got an email yesterday from the publisher of the book concerning what Mark (Drumback) wrote about on this board. He said it was my responsibility for what folks said on the board...and insinuated I could be liable. I told him that I think I know my rights and apprised him of Section 230 of the Federal Law that oversees? the law concerning a forum moderator/owners rights. I know them fairly well. He said he knew about the statute. I asked why he said what he said then. He never responded.....oh well...I believe there will be no smoking gun in the book and there will be no new info coming out...but we'll see.... |
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