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Baseball Authenticity Opinions Please

What are your thoughts on the authenticity of each of these signed photos?

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Permalink Reply by Carl Ryan on November 2, 2012 at 9:39pm

I honestly dont know baseball well at all, and although the Jeter signature looks good at first, im not so sure its legit. I always look at the D for a certain feature that i have seen over and over again with legit Jeters, and this one doesnt seem to have it. But im sure Cee Gee and Chris will be able to tell for sure.

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Permalink Reply by Peter leone on November 2, 2012 at 10:23pm

All look good to me except the Whitey looks off for some reason.. Jeter is No doubt good.

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Permalink Reply by Anthony Bautista on November 2, 2012 at 11:27pm

No to all .

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Permalink Reply by terrier8HOF on November 3, 2012 at 4:35am

the Sabathia, Posada, Rivera, Mattingly and Ford are no good, in my opinion. Ripken is easy to forge, so I really can't tell, and Jeter is a mess but it looks suspect.

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Permalink Reply by Anthony Bautista on November 4, 2012 at 12:31am

The thing this forger got wrong on the Ripken is he does the C and AL a certain way . This one above doesnt have it . Here is an authentic one .

If you look at this authentic one . The other one is way off. Ripken was always great with his autograph. He almost always sat down and signed . He would do the whole line of people during bp. He would not sign at the hotel or walking in . He would always say get me inside. But he always signed. Plus he always gave you a great looking graph. This was during 95-Retiring. I dont know his habits prior to that. I have gotten him at all star games in the last few years and he signed walking up in the crowd. But still gave a grat graph and had control over the crowd on how he wanted to sign . IE- putting things in his face,pushing ,etc.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Zarelli on November 3, 2012 at 6:21am

I will only comment on those I know.

Rivera, Ford, and Mattingly likely bad IMO.

Jeter suspect.

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Permalink Reply by Kenny Sweitzer, Jr. on November 3, 2012 at 6:42pm

I do authenticate baseball.

All but one look very good. I would give my opinion that they are all authentic except the Cal Ripken is undetermined.

T.A.E.

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Permalink Reply by Anthony Bautista on November 3, 2012 at 8:08pm

What company do you authenticate for Kenny ?
Or are you your own company?!

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Permalink Reply by Carl Ryan on November 3, 2012 at 6:55pm

I am very much looking forward to hearing Chris Williams opinion on the Jeter. He can spot a fake a mile away. I think its highly suspicious. I compared some other scans to the other players and looked at some signature threads on a few of these guys, and i am getting the same impression that Terrior and Zipper are getting. I think most of them are bad