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Permalink Reply by Mike Kaminski on January 25, 2015 at 9:05pm

DiMaggio, Mantle with inscription are fake, and blatant fakes in my opinion. The other Mantle ball and Yankees ball is fine. Ichiro I can't tell. 

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Permalink Reply by James on January 25, 2015 at 9:14pm

Thanks Mike.  I figured the inscription was a fake.  It actually looks like the NO 7 was written first.  The DiMaggio was harder for me, but I'm a newbie. 

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Permalink Reply by James on January 25, 2015 at 9:54pm

I agree with Mike. DiMaggio and Mantle No. 7 are fakes. Last Mantle is good. The DiMaggio is actually pretty bad, and if the sig itself isn't bad enough, the "HOF" really gives it away. That's not the way his HOF looked. The last Mantle is nice though. Don't know about the others though.

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Permalink Reply by CJCollector on January 26, 2015 at 3:40am

That last Mantle, which is definitely authentic, is a classic Mantle sig and the toning adds character to the ball.

Very nice.

I own quite a few Mantle sigs where the ball is snow-white, but I also like a Mantle sig on a toned baseball.

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Permalink Reply by James on January 26, 2015 at 7:48pm

Hey, Christopher. I agree with you about the "character issue" (I didn't know this was about politics, lol.). The toning to that bottom Mantle ball doesn't bother me at all. In fact, like you, I actually like it. I have a Mantle ball with a really nice signature with light toning all around, and I think it looks great. Definitely adds character. So many people like an antique finish to furniture and other items, but on baseballs some don't like that "antique" look. But the snow-white Mantles look a little boring to me sometimes.

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Permalink Reply by terrier8HOF on January 26, 2015 at 4:04am

agree with everyone, and Ichiro is authentic.

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Permalink Reply by Null on January 26, 2015 at 7:09am

Agree with everyone as well. The Joe D is pathetic, the Mantle No. 7 is common "Banana Mantle" forgery. Team ball the Cano/Jeter look fine. Bottom Mantle is no doubt authentic. And I have no clue on Ichiro, but my buddy was a bat boy for the Mariners and has about 20 items signed by Ichiro and damn near all of them are side paneled sharpie balls like this!

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