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Something just doesn't seem quite right about this ball. As of now, there have been 39 bids with the current bid price at $10,099.99. This signature on this ball seems a little off to me. It almost looks like something you might see at Coaches Corner. And I am not familiar with the company that authenticated it, Academy of Manuscript and Autograph. That authenticator was discussed in an AML thread from 11-29-2011.

The link is http://www.ebay.com/itm/Babe-Ruth-Autographed-Single-Signed-Basebal...

I'm not sure how to link it up properly from my iPad. Sorry.

It's item 261640641572

I'll post some relevant pics.

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I think you're right, James. The entire autograph looks off to me (the "a" most obviously), and just as much, the ink is laying on the surface of the ball, not absorbed into the cowhide like generally found on legit Babe Ruths.

Here is his website.  He is a former Tyler City Deputy......................

okay......fair enough......but what does that have to do with authenticating autographs and why does he have it listed on his qualifications page.  That mean jack crap in regards to authentication

http://www.autographsauthentication.com/about-ama.html

My whole issue is, who is going to trust a company like this enough to mail them a real 10,000 dollar baseball?   I damn sure wouldn't.  In all honesty, the ONLY company I would mail a Ruth to would be PSA/DNA.   If I was forced to pick a second it would obviously be JSA.  

I don't know Ruth autographs, so I don't know if it is real.  It just feels like the circumstances are stacked up against the authenticity.

Piece-of-crap forgery!!!

There is your answer, Mr. Williams has summed it up nicely

Thank you, Dan.

It is simply a bad and obvious forgery.

I have yet to see an authentic autograph with a COA from Academy of Manuscript and Autograph.

Never.

Thanks to Steve, Jason, Dan, and Christopher. I don't know if anyone reported it, but it looks like it may have been pulled. Maybe $10,000 is the threshold for eBay to actually pull a forgery! I'm just amazed that there could have been nearly 40 bids on that thing.

I saved the auction.

Here is that Babe Ruth forgery.

James,

You're right, eBay pulled the auction. Thank you, eBay! This has happened a few times recently after high value forgeries were exposed on our site. I don't know if that's a coincidence or if eBay is reading our site from time to time In either case, great job, James!

Thanks, Steve.

I know for a fact ebay does know all about Global and their forgery ring, as well as many of their Global power-sellers. Ebay chooses to do nothing about them or the hundreds of other scammers that have been reported to them dozens of times. I believe that makes ebay an accomplice. The only reason they pulled the high dollar Ruth forgery is fear of possible bad press. 

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