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    • Friday, April 12, 2013

    NPR: Dealer Says He Doctored Most Valuable Baseball Card Ever Sold.

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    posted on April 12, 2013 at 07:00 PM by Infinite Joost (Voxter) to baseball cards, collecting, honus wagner, pirates, scams  |  12 comment(s)

    A judge has rejected a plea agreement from the former head of a sports memorabilia auction house who admitted to using shill bidders to drive up prices and to altering the most valuable baseball card ever sold.

    William Mastro of Mastro Auctions admitted to doctoring the 1909 Honus Wagner cigarette card that was once owned by hockey great Wayne Gretzky. The card sold for $2.8 million in 2007.

    Once again The Great One shows uncanny instincts.

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    1. Bitter Calculus Instructor posted on November 25, 2012 at 05:01 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Given the title, I thought the article would involve marijuana.
    2. Jack Keefe posted on November 25, 2012 at 05:13 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Well Al me and my pal A.J. Pierogi had no thing better to do this Winter and so we bought us one of these packs Al. Here is what we got I leaf it to you to say whether it is worth 420 Smackers. And I paid 410 of them because AJ only had a Sawbuck but he says he will cough up the rest when he gets to a Eighty M Machine.

    1 Base Card: Checklist of Base Cards #101 through 150
    1 Autograph Card of Demon Young
    1 Autograph Card of John Rocker
    1 Autographed Kenyan Birth Certificate of Julio Franco
    1 Autographed Autograph. Al I have no idea why the hell they give you a autographed autograph. The 1 we got was a signatuer by Lennie Merullo & it was signed by Darwin Barney. What gives with this stuff Al.
    1 Jumbo Jersey Relic which turned out to be a splinter of the Asbury Park Boardwalk that was crusht in Hurricane Sandi Al this is Bate and Switch if you ask me.

    Al never buy such stuff. They will get you thinking you will pull something like Max Alvis stirrup sox and all you end up with is a box of Wide Elephants.
    3. Crispix Attacks 2: Swag Airlines posted on November 25, 2012 at 06:39 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    LOL
    4. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Griffin (Vlad) posted on November 25, 2012 at 08:43 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    It makes me sad that something like this exists.

    On the plus side, we got a Keefe post out of it.
    5. DA Baracus is gritty and hits with RISP posted on November 25, 2012 at 09:18 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    They look like crap.
    6. Leroy Kincaid posted on November 25, 2012 at 10:37 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    They look like crap.

    Eventually they'll just start selling plain pieces of cardboard with signatures and/or a piece of "memorabilia".
    7. Jolly Old St. Nick Done Jumped The Ship  posted on November 25, 2012 at 11:29 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    P.T. Barnum said all that needs to be said about this little enterprise.
    8. Jim (jimmuscomp) posted on November 25, 2012 at 11:40 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    The checklist of Base Cards absolutely killed me.
    9. Don Geovany Soto (chris h.) posted on November 26, 2012 at 01:13 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Best Keefe post in a long time. Primey.
    10. GIANTlhbASS posted on November 27, 2012 at 03:38 AM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Before the Information Age, the checklist cards were pretty handy. That would be devastating, though, being one of the six cards. I'm dying to know how Jack and AJ will split the loot.
    11. lieiam posted on November 28, 2012 at 02:11 AM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Wow, this is sad and pathetic (am I showing my age yet?).... "Back in the day" I collected many a card... And then stupid stuff like Upper Deck (beautiful cards from my memory, but such a cheesy way to increase the price and go even stupider with the "value" angle). I suppose that was the straw that broke the camels back for me... And BS like this seems to me the natural progression. Sorry, I'm not really ranting very coherently now. But I couldn't resist a brief and not very coherent whining post.

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