Before I continue, below are links showing hundreds of examples of forged Mickey Mantle baseballs, photos, etc. found on Ebay (the most dangerous place to buy autographs if you're a casual collector or impulse buyer).

https://live.autographmagazine.com/forum/topics/ebay-mantle-dimaggi...

https://live.autographmagazine.com/forum/topics/examples-of-mickey-...

https://live.autographmagazine.com/forum/topics/most-common-mantle-...

As we all know an authentic Mickey Mantle autograph on Budig baseball is very rare.

Below you will observe a laughable forged Mickey Mantle on a Budig baseball.

It amazes me is that in 2022 people are still bidding and buying crap like this with all of the information on autographs available on the internet.

But then again, we Ebay heavily-populated with delusional autograph collectors, impulse buyers and scammers, garbage like this continues to sell.

People still assume that Ebay filters out the forgeries before they are listed; nothing could be further from the truth; if you look at Sold Auctions of Mickey Mantle autographs on Ebay, the majority of them are forgeries.  The forgery business/industry is huge on Ebay and other platforms.

Someone just flushed $416.00 for the below forged Mickey Mantle baseball.

Again, I have zero sympathy for the person who purchased that garbage.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/334617531611?hash=item4de8c254db%3Ag%3AB%7...

Not only is this a forged Mickey Mantle baseball, but it is also not a Scoreboard product.  Scoreboard did not sell forgeries.  The old Scoreboard COA has been edited/copied by sellers to sell their forgeries.

Worthless COA from Home Plate Memorabilia (Who?).