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Just curious what everyone thinks about this Mantle signed baseball

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Permalink Reply by Ian Baldock on December 14, 2012 at 7:27pm

I think its so bad nobody wants to bother commenting!

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Permalink Reply by Jeffrey Potter on December 14, 2012 at 9:47pm

Unfortunately this is not an authentic Mantle autograph, sorry.
Jeff

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Permalink Reply by terrier8HOF on December 15, 2012 at 6:24am

I wasn't thinking of buying this. I put it up because it carried a cert. from one of the Big Two companies, and I was curious if I was the only one that questioned it. apparently not.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Zarelli on December 15, 2012 at 8:09am

IMO, it has a slightly drawn appearance. That said, if it is fake, it's certainly a cut above the usual mass-produced Mantle fakes.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on December 15, 2012 at 8:36am

The only thing that caught my attention was the M of Mantle. Not just the bottom of it, but it's looks to be an earlier style than the first M. But otherwise it looks great to me. I'm not sure what to make of this ball.

Terrier, you picked a great piece to discuss. I hope Chris and Fudd join the discussion.

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Permalink Reply by Fuddjcal on December 15, 2012 at 11:11am

the only thing that caught my eye was the whole thing.....it's Horrible.

if it has a JSA or PSA cert# please share it as I suspect that is faked as well. If not, stranger things have happened with PSA & JSA as we all know( LOL)Still ,I wouldn't want this one if you paid me to take it.

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Permalink Reply by terrier8HOF on December 15, 2012 at 11:18am

Fudd, I put this up over a month ago, and there were no comments. I didnt save the listing but I always check out the validity of the document. in this case, I recall everything seemed intact. The reason I posted it is that I was surprised that any company would authenticate this. could it be real, I guess. but there are so many questions about it, I would have rendered a "no opinion". I didn't post the like, like I normally do, because I wanted unbiased comments.

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Permalink Reply by Fuddjcal on December 15, 2012 at 1:02pm

I hear ya terrier...must not have seen it last time or just figured it was so bad it didn't need explanation.

I hate both "M's", the "Mi", the"k", the "y", the "Ma relationship and the a", "not crazy about the "n" and the "tle" is pathetic. The overall speed appears slow and the baselines are off...other than that it's a beaut!!! More power to PSA or JSA if they did cert it and photograph it in their data base, but I feel it's amateurish attempt at best IMHO and they blew it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5RtlpXsl8k