Albert Pujols Game Worn Glove with MLB hologram

[gameused]

I just noticed that the Rawlings first base mitt that Albert Pujols is using already has an MLB authentication sticker on the glove. Has anyone seen this before?

Thanks,
Bobby

[MLB~NUT]

No, but pretty cool, I've seen it on bats being used in game, but not feilding gloves.

[lakeerie92]

Surprising to see his glove authenticated considering his bats a rarely if ever authenticated. The only ones I have seen authenticated were for his signature, not game use. Cool to see this though.

[2x_beckett_super_collector]

These are my thoughts on authentication. I'm bored, so I'm that thinking out loud lol! Someone on here once said that you can only guarantee authenticity if you see a player using or wearing something and they personally hand it to you. To a certain degree, that is true. The very first "game used" item I ever purchased was a David Murphy bat. I purchased it at the Rangers Majestic shop and the store sticker said "game used" and while in the store, I looked up the MLB holo and it also stated that it was game used and gave the date ( can't recall at the moment) it was "game used". After getting home, I actually found an image of Murphy that day while at batting practice. There were two perfect pics of David standing with the bat on his shoulder which showed the two most identifiable marks on the bat. Its was a %100 match. A couple of months later, I actually met Murphy before a game to have him sign the bat. Out of curiosity, I showed him pics of him using it (and had him sign one of them) at practice and asked if he believed he actually used it in that or any game. He said he didn't remember that bat in particular, but that he could say he never uses the same bats he practices with as game bats!! I was so upset. I wrote the Rangers and the MLB and every email I could find about the false MLB authentication. I got one reply and that was from the rangers who basically said "sorry"!! Yes he used it but it was not game used as "authenticated" by the MLB. Everyone makes mistakes...intentionally or not. As far as MLB holos on baseballs and jerseys, I had a cheap GU ball ( $30 or so) I tried seeing how hard it is to remove the "tamper proof" stickers and apply to another ball and well, it's not that hard at all, especially on the ones that were not put completely flat on the ball. *Jerseys, easy as pie to remove! Again, I own a Murphy jersey that I'll never ever sell so I gave the holo removal another shot and yep, easy as pie! If an employee of a team with access to all the GU items wanted to pull a fast one, chances are, no one would know. I dont know how other teams operate but, another thing that gets me is that the Rangers have several team shops. The one at the stadium has a shop with tons of GU items that anyone can pick through and touch. Holos could get swapped in a heart beat! I'm not a thief, but I know if the possibility of doing such a thing crossed my mind, some thief out there has probably already done it! Yeah I'd rather have a MLB holo, but they can't always be trusted! Sometimes provenance is stronger than a simple sticker that can easily give any of us a false sense of authentication. *Anyone seen the Hamilton GU jersey on eBay with the MLB holo? I'm not at all saying this guy did this, but it is extremely plausible that the holo could have been taken from a legit jersey and applied to the one he has listed. Again, I am in no way Accusing that guy of doing such a thing

[d2ray13]

So where's the glove? And where's the black and white Marucci from his out of body game?

[coxfan]

When I was at the Angels-at-Rangers series in late August, one of the stadium stores had a jersey that was authenticated as having been worn by Darren Oliver in two different games: the 2010 World Series Game 3; and a regular season game in another month.

How is such double-authentication possible? Maybe Oliver had worn the jersey a second time, after the hologram had been applied. Then the authenticator added the second game to the database? Otherwise, it'd be impossible to keep up with the jersey's history.

Too bad we can't read the hologram number on Pujols' glove. It'd be interesting to keep track of it in the database.

[BULBUS]

It has been discussed on here before how players were using bats with holograms on them.

The seats in the old Yankee Stadium were hologramed before the season was over.

[emann]

I posted a few weeks back that Vlad Guerrero had one on his helmet. It strikes me as odd that they do this considering those MLB holos are so easily damaged, I've got some that are almost impossible to read from just being in storage nevermind going thru games stuck on a glove.

[freddiefreeman5]

I posted a few weeks back that Vlad Guerrero had one on his helmet. It strikes me as odd that they do this considering those MLB holos are so easily damaged, I've got some that are almost impossible to read from just being in storage nevermind going thru games stuck on a glove.

I have a baseball that was sent to me loose in a large mailer that the numbers are nearly worn off on the MLB hologram.
I wonder how long these holograms will last?

[LastingsMilledge85]

I wonder how long these holograms will last?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-Q7b-vHY3Q