I have been thinking about branching out into another sport beside baseball to collect. The big four sports for memorabilia collecting are baseball, basketball, football, and hockey post 1980.
I trying to think which sport would be the toughest to self-authenticate an game used item and which would be the easiest. Granted my experience outside of baseball is limited but based on what I see available, i would be least comfortable with self authenticating a basketball jersey. Without any proper paperwork I find it difficult to see much difference with the pro-style jerseys that are available on ebay versus the jersey auctioned off at nba.com. it seems tough for me to try to attempt to authenticate a gu basketball on my own.
On the other hand, it seems very possible to get a photo match from a roughed up modern day football jersey. It seems like the safest way to branch out from baseball.
Anyways, I maybe misleading myself on this opinion. So I ask this question. I enjoy authenticating items on my own if that helps so if there is lots of available resource for any of these sports to make it easier to research that would be helpful and not a burden.
I trying to think which sport would be the toughest to self-authenticate an game used item and which would be the easiest. Granted my experience outside of baseball is limited but based on what I see available, i would be least comfortable with self authenticating a basketball jersey. Without any proper paperwork I find it difficult to see much difference with the pro-style jerseys that are available on ebay versus the jersey auctioned off at nba.com. it seems tough for me to try to attempt to authenticate a gu basketball on my own.
On the other hand, it seems very possible to get a photo match from a roughed up modern day football jersey. It seems like the safest way to branch out from baseball.
Anyways, I maybe misleading myself on this opinion. So I ask this question. I enjoy authenticating items on my own if that helps so if there is lots of available resource for any of these sports to make it easier to research that would be helpful and not a burden.
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