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Permalink Reply by Null on January 30, 2014 at 7:19am

Tony texted me about this earlier and I tried to share it a status a few minutes ago. Pretty big deal! I thought it was interesting that Eli wanted to keep some of his stuff (which I would think he would have the right to do...). Also STEINER is involved in this which is bad for them...

This is why I NEVER trust "game used" stuff, especially the "game used cards" that fetch a lot of money. 

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Permalink Reply by Rich on January 30, 2014 at 7:39am

I hate those "game used" cards on so many levels.

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Permalink Reply by Null on January 30, 2014 at 7:49am

Yup, I have several Mattingly ones just because I do think they are cool looking, but I have never once believed that they are actually "game used" jersey slices.

I see Mantle/Maris/Ruth/Gehrig "game used" cards fetch $500-$1000 easy over a half inch piece of cloth. In fact, I'd be more angry if they actually were game used by these people, because that means someone destroyed a jersey of the Babe!

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Permalink Reply by Rich on January 30, 2014 at 7:53am

Yeah, I hated them for those two reasons.  One, you can't possibly prove one way or another whether this was authentic. Second, you actually shredded a Babe Ruth jersey to create an awful, boring, manufactured collectible?!

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Permalink Reply by Null on January 30, 2014 at 7:58am

The problem with game used memorabilia is there is always a "middle man", and there is always a business mindset to keep costs as low as possible... 

Here is one for a mere $4,000:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/BABE-RUTH-2007-UPPER-DECK-PREMIER-BABE-RUTH...

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Permalink Reply by Rich on January 30, 2014 at 8:00am

What a piece of crap.

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Permalink Reply by David S on January 30, 2014 at 8:41am

In Ron Keurajian's book "Baseball Hall of Fame autographs", he said that he spoke with Joe Sewell one time and asked if he had any old bats he had used in the big leagues.  Joe's response was that once your bat was cracked it was used as kindling wood.  He never saved any of his bats.  Bobby Doerr also said something similar: Bat boys threw them out, I never kept mine.  Players did not care about broken bats.  

Can't believe anyone would pay $4000 for that!

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Permalink Reply by Null on January 30, 2014 at 9:01am

The idea that ex-players have tons of their old game worn jerseys/bats/batting gloves laying around the house to sell to Topps/Upper deck is ridiculous... I'm sure they have some, which they probably would like to hang on to, or hand down to family members. Also, how many would WANT to sell them to be cut up in to pieces? 

If they wanted to sell, I would think they could sell it as a whole for more than Topps/UpperDeck are wanting to pay for it to chop it up... 

The Babe Ruth "game worn" cloths above could literally be from a wash cloth. 

I'm going to ask some ball players about this the next time I'm getting autographs.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on January 30, 2014 at 8:48am

+1

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Permalink Reply by Rich on January 30, 2014 at 7:30am

If true, what a scum organization.  Hard to imagine how these guys get unholy piles of cash thrown at them and still feel a need to rip off their fans.

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Permalink Reply by GraphingMlb on January 30, 2014 at 7:41am

I bet this is just the tip of the iceberg and other teams do this as well...

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Permalink Reply by Rick Meyer on January 30, 2014 at 7:46am

I bet there are many teams and players that do this.

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