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Permalink Reply by Corey Moylan on June 14, 2018 at 2:23pm

Looks a lot like mine lol. Except mines not graded. I still would trade for an unauthenticated one...

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Permalink Reply by John Spillane on June 14, 2018 at 2:51pm

Here's mine. Authenticated by JSA, but no sticker. 

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Permalink Reply by TradeGeek on June 14, 2018 at 2:59pm

Those are beautiful balls. 

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on June 14, 2018 at 2:25pm

Ugh - does that really need to say "PSA/DNA" as least five times and in 3 different ways, including a web address? Horrid.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Zarelli on June 14, 2018 at 2:41pm

More expensive items like Mantle, etc. REQUIRE the full letter with a photo. You can't get just the card COA.

So, my advice would be to NOT sticker the ball. Because there is a photo on the letter, the ball does not need the sticker.

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Permalink Reply by James on June 14, 2018 at 8:09pm

I agree completely.  And if the seller has the sticker on the LOA, that should be good.

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Permalink Reply by Mike White on June 18, 2018 at 1:08pm

The photo on the letter AND the same photo on the online cert check.

You need both for peace of mind.

Documents, as we've seen (especially you, Steve) are somewhat trivial to fake with enough time and resources.

It's also not hard to come up with a number that'll correspond to a similarly signed item in the database.

If you can fake the document, faking the sticker is nothing.

Getting a picture of an unauthenticated item into the database or faking every nuance of an item already pictured, on the other hand, is where the sense of security comes in.

That's why I was so bemused when I bought a PSA Bob Lemon ball about 10-15 years ago, and when I contacted them about there being no photo on the cert check, they told me it must have been oversight and that I could take one and send it in.

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Permalink Reply by terrier8HOF on June 15, 2018 at 6:36pm

interesting discussion. I have never sent any of my baseballs to be authenticated, but I do have some that have PSA or JSA stickers and it doesn't bother me in the least.  

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Permalink Reply by Steve Zarelli on June 18, 2018 at 1:44pm

It's a pet peeve of mine, but another consideration for signed baseballs...

If there is the slightest bit of toning on the ball, the snow white stickers stick out like a sore thumb and accentuate the toning. I do not like the look of the white stickers on a ball that has toning. And, they almost all eventually tone.

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on June 18, 2018 at 2:51pm

+1 yet another very good reason to avoid stickers/free advertising/vandalism...

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Permalink Reply by Gary Dunaier on July 8, 2018 at 12:33pm

I know you're talking about third-party authenticators, but Major League Baseball puts authentication stickers on their game-used baseballs.  Here's a screen capture of a MLB authenticator authenticating New York Met Phillip Evans' first Major League hit (9/9/17).  Note that a hologram sticker has already been affixed to the ball, just below the Rawlings logo.

Incidentally, you might find it interesting that the Mets broadcasters seemed bemused at the existence of an official authenticator...

Gary Cohen: The authenticator is authenticating. Phillip Evans' first major league hit, first major league double. "I'm the Authenticator." Authentication, Incorporated . . . [after the camera showed a close-up of the "Authentication, Inc." logo on the authenticator's jacket] . . . there you go.

Keith Hernandez; A lot of people feeding at the trough.

Gary Cohen: They want to make sure the baseball is properly authenticated. You don't want to have amateur authentications.

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