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Pawn Stars: Lou Gehrig "Signed" Jersey

Tom Tresh busts Pawn Stars:

They buy a Lou Gehrig "signed" jersey for $3,000--and it's the only one known! If it were real it could bring 6-figures.

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Comment by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on March 18, 2010 at 5:15pm: By the way, everyone. Christopher Williams is TomTresh2. He's coming out of the closet--hopefully not in a dress. He deserves our kudos for exposing the bad guys.

Comment by Mike Miller on March 18, 2010 at 6:10pm: Christopher Williams , my apology. I read it the wrong way.

Comment by Tom Barrett on March 18, 2010 at 8:19pm: So Christopher Williams is really Tom Tresh or is Tom Tresh really Christopher Willams... Whoever he is - this was a great piece and an eye opener for autograph selling on ebay or pawn shops! Nicely done... Now one more question - I have an old little league baseball glove with a Tom Tresh autograph (Tigers?)... Or should it be a Christopher Williams glove???

Comment by CJCollector on March 18, 2010 at 9:14pm: Tommy Tresh was and still is my favorite all-time Yankee and ballplayer.

Comment by Josh Board on March 19, 2010 at 2:46pm: All very interesting posts. I'm glad so many threw in their two cents. I have to say...my favorite line of all is about not watching reality shows "....except Cops."
I seriously LOL'd on that!

Comment by Drew Totten on March 20, 2010 at 6:49am: Well, like Desi said, the History Channel has some 'splainin to do...

Comment by Josh Board on March 20, 2010 at 6:27pm: So basically...here's what I think happened with the Gehrig jersey and the PawnStars show. I think the show needs to film SOMETHING. And, in the course of the day, they may get 4 customers. Two of them want to sell crap in their garage that nobody would care to watch. So, to liven things up, they do what reality shows do. They fake stuff.

They saw this guy with the Gehrig jersey, and they said to the guy "Look...we'll give you $100, to come in and pretend to negotiate with us. When it's all said and done, and the camera is shut off, we'll give you back the jersey."

That would explain EVERYTHING. It would explain why the show DID NOT bring in an expert (no need, since they weren't really purchasing it). That would explain why the show kept saying "it's not here", instead of saying "We sold it." Or, it would've been easy enough to say "Well, after we purchased it from the guy, an authenticator said it was bogus, so we got our money back."

The guy, trying to sell the bogus item...can now post "hey...it was featured on a TV show, too." And still try to sell it.

Comment by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on March 20, 2010 at 6:46pm: If that's true Josh, then Drew's right—they do have lots of 'splainin to do.

Comment by Sheldon Gajarian on March 20, 2010 at 7:50pm: Thanks Josh, I'll take that as a compliment! I don't doubt the guy showed up at the shop knowing full well, with that jersey, he would make it on the air. Cop's is the only reality show I know of that is not staged, rehearsed, scripted, faked or any other type of tampering...You can that to the bank...

Comment by Robert Wehlauch on March 28, 2010 at 10:29am: great video and yes we all want to see if this item is for real and what happened to it after the pawn shop bought it

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