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A Babe Ruth baseball offered by a really dumb eBay seller (mikechitdangles-7). He’s selling a Babe Ruth autographed baseball. But there are problems. First of all, Babe Ruth stopped putting quotation marks around his first name about the year 1927. The ball signed however, is a Ford Frick National League baseball. Ford Frick balls weren’t produced until 1935 so that’s the earliest year the Babe could have possibly signed it. And finally, the autograph looks fake anyway.

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Permalink Reply by James on July 20, 2019 at 1:40pm

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Permalink Reply by James on July 20, 2019 at 2:36pm

And how did I find out about this? Ebay kindly sent this to my email as a suggestion for possible purchase.

Thanks, ebay for seeing if I’d be interested in spending $4999 on a fake autograph?

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on July 20, 2019 at 4:05pm

Post a link!

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Permalink Reply by James on July 20, 2019 at 4:55pm

Here’s a link, Steve.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/1936-Babe-Ruth-Signed-Baseball-authentic/3...

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Permalink Reply by CJCollector on July 21, 2019 at 5:03am

Ebay is always sending me emails with forged items attached to the email.

The majority of my "Watch" list consists of forgeries and Ebay flags that (via their algorithm) and then they send emails to "interested" buyers.

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Permalink Reply by CJCollector on July 21, 2019 at 5:05am

By the way, that "Babe Ruth" is a laughable forgery.

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Permalink Reply by James on July 21, 2019 at 1:41pm

Yes it is.

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Permalink Reply by terrier8HOF on July 21, 2019 at 7:14am

this has always bugged me. Its one thing for ebay to sit idly while crooks peddle their junk, but to actively solicit potential buyers seems to put this at another legal level.

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Permalink Reply by CJCollector on July 21, 2019 at 1:44pm

I have always stated, that in my opinion, is an enabler of the forgeries listed and sold on their auction site.

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Permalink Reply by James on July 21, 2019 at 1:46pm

I couldn’t agree more. And I think there may be those novice or casual collectors who think, “Well ebay wouldn’t recommend this to me if they weren’t certain it was real. I think I’ll buy it!” But eBay’s thinking, “Alright...more money in our pockets!”