They purchase this crap at local auctions, estate sales, charity events,, ., at super cheap prices with their only intention being to flip their forgeries on Ebay for a profit. The people (like Ebay seller Angiedc2002) who buy this garbage know ZERO about autographs. We have never observed any authentic autographs with a worthless COA from My Favorite Players. These are the "Florida" forgeries that we've been exposing for years. So share away.Here are a few Mickey Mantle, Joe DiMaggio, Ted Williams, etc., "Florida" forgeries found on Ebay.Īll of the below Mantle, DiMaggio, etc., forgeries are listed by Ebay seller Angiedc2002. I'm particularly interested in hearing stories about what or how you obtained memorabilia at the ballpark as a kid. It's the off season, so it's the perfect time to share your memorabilia stories. But at least I had the sense to wrap it in plastic and that has preserved it well over the past 32 years. Are you sensing a coolness theme yet? Once price guides entered the equation, it zapped all the fun out collecting for me.Īnyway, for some strange reason, when I got home from Rosenblatt Stadium, I colored in the date on the Mantle autograph. We had no earthly idea that baseball cards had worth which could have been cashed in at some future point.Īnd now that I think about it, before we realized baseball cards had monetary value, Willie and I would make trades based on how cool the picture on the card looked or simply how much we wanted a certain card. But understand that I came from the era in which kids used clothes pins to attach duplicate baseball cards to the frame of their bicycles so that when we pedaled, the cards made contact with our spokes and made a cool flapping noise. I added the date to the piece of paper, folded it, and shoved it into my pocket.Īs much as I understood that Mantle was bigger than life, my 14-year-old mind didn't comprehend the importance of doing a better job of preserving his autograph. We didn't engage in any small talk, but none was really necessary from my perspective.
I have no recollection about how I obtained the piece of paper you see above (maybe it was supplied by somebody at the ballpark?), but when it was my turn, I handed it to Mantle and he autographed it.
Willie was a Dodgers fan, so he didn't exactly love the Yankees either, but there we were waiting for Mickey Mantle to sign our stuff. On August 10, 1981, my best friend, Willie, and I stood in a short line of kids in one of the aisles behind home plate at Rosenblatt Stadium before an Omaha Royals game to get Mickey Mantle's autograph.Īs a 14-year-old budding Royals fan, I already hated the Yankees, but somehow I knew that getting Mantle's autograph trumped such hatred.
0 kommentar(er)
