not sure how many caught this piece over in the News section.
"Taube says some players create authentication issues by being too liberal with their willingness to inscribe bats as game used when signing them. "There is one major star who will sign anything 'game used' when it is well known that he only uses a certain type of bat in batting practice," he said.
Players under exclusive individual contracts to various memorabilia companies will often agree to provide a game worn jerseys, home run bats, shirts, batting gloves, shoes and other memorabilia for resale. The material is delivered to the memorabilia agency with little or no labelling and when a player comes to sign the items, Taube says it's become obvious that perfect on-site authentication wasn't done.
"They just walk into a room full of equipment. The home run and special event bats aren't marked. They write game used on all of it but In many cases, they're just signing a bat and they really have no idea what it was used for."
Taube says some Latin American players are known for giving less fortunate family and friends game used equipment from their own lockers or from pro colleagues. The material can then be liquidated."
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"Taube says some players create authentication issues by being too liberal with their willingness to inscribe bats as game used when signing them. "There is one major star who will sign anything 'game used' when it is well known that he only uses a certain type of bat in batting practice," he said.
Players under exclusive individual contracts to various memorabilia companies will often agree to provide a game worn jerseys, home run bats, shirts, batting gloves, shoes and other memorabilia for resale. The material is delivered to the memorabilia agency with little or no labelling and when a player comes to sign the items, Taube says it's become obvious that perfect on-site authentication wasn't done.
"They just walk into a room full of equipment. The home run and special event bats aren't marked. They write game used on all of it but In many cases, they're just signing a bat and they really have no idea what it was used for."
Taube says some Latin American players are known for giving less fortunate family and friends game used equipment from their own lockers or from pro colleagues. The material can then be liquidated."
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