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Notice anything strange about this Rivera ball offered by Probstein123?

You have to look very closely but it becomes painfully obvious. This is a current auction, and the bids are up to $115.00

For the record, I did contact the seller about this last week, and their response was "looks like a bad pen". yeah that's it.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Zarelli on December 29, 2014 at 6:25am

A faded signature was traced over. If the slow, wobbly application isn't enough to convince someone, you can actually see remnants of the gray faded signature peeking out in spots.

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Permalink Reply by terrier8HOF on December 29, 2014 at 6:53am

Bingo. the point is that it is obvious just by looking at a photo. I understand that powersellers like this have thousands of items for sale at one time, so something like this can be overlooked. but in this case, I actually contacted them on it, and it is still being listed. Once the recipient sees the ball in person, I am sure the seller will have a return on his hands.

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Permalink Reply by Null on December 29, 2014 at 7:00am

Wow, nice catch.

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Permalink Reply by terrier8HOF on December 29, 2014 at 7:23am

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Mariano-Rivera-1999-WS-MVP-Signed-World-Ser...

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Permalink Reply by Erich Jerozal on December 29, 2014 at 8:46am

yes. slowly drawn to me.

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Permalink Reply by David S on December 29, 2014 at 1:03pm

I once purchased a similar item. Luckily for me, it was a Steve Carlton ball, cost only about $25-30. Once I realized it was traced over a faded signature (about a year after I purchased), i removed the signature and now use the ball for catch. Now it's something I look at very closely.

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Permalink Reply by terrier8HOF on December 29, 2014 at 1:15pm

some are more obvious than others. there is a Red Sox ball currently on ebay, where someone took a faded souvenir ball, with stamped signatures and traced over them. Unbelievable.