GAI Authenticated Baseballs

I have a collection of 90 autographed HOF'er-signed baseballs in my collection. Back in the mid-90's, I had my collection authenticated by GAI. I felt that it would add to the collection to have them all authenticated by one company. At the time, I lived in SOCAL and GAI and PSA were the goto companies. Now I have a nice collection with GAI stickers on every ball and GAI has fallen into disfavor. Any advice as what to do with these balls?? I am confident that the balls are good since many were obtained from reputable dealers, shows, and players through the mail. I am now retired and can't spent another $2000 to get them re-authenticated. Opinions, please.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Zarelli on February 7, 2018 at 3:53pm

How do you plan to sell them? You may be better off consigning the group to a reputable auction house and letting them handle it. Then you don't need to worry about getting them re-authenticated.

You're right though... put them on ebay one at a time with a GAI sticker and you're going to take a bath. From what I saw in the other thread, your material looks good.

Permalink Reply by Don Gitersonke on February 7, 2018 at 4:09pm

Thanks, Steve. Any suggestions for an auction house? Heritage says there's not enough value for them to handle! They only want balls worth $3000 each.

Permalink Reply by Steve Zarelli on February 7, 2018 at 4:14pm

Yeah... not surprising, The big sports auction houses only want rare and high end stuff.

Try RR Auction or Sig Auctions. Both are reputable.

I have no benefit from referring you, but in full disclosure, I authenticate space material for them.

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