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This listing has been up a while and has not had any takers thankfully, but I just came upon it now. Here is the link, take a look at the photos in the listing, as I'm not posting them in the thread:
I used to own this bat back when it was a "legit" O'Neill rookie block letter bat. It still resembles that now but its been doctored several times.
The following photos are from when I owned it. It was autographed, had no number on the knob and showed good use.
The next group of 5 photos are from an ebay listing sometime after I sold it to Greg Walker, who used to go by Bird33Rose14 on these boards in the past. He altered the bat for some reason, removing the autograph, adding a number to the knob and creating fake markings as if tape had once been there and removed, in the form of O'Neill's later characteristic tape job.
You can read more about Mr Walker at:
and
Anyway, back to the current auction. The listing that Walker had made using the above photos was pulled shortly after it was uncovered. So I think its a safe assumption that the bat wound up with b-e-collectibles after he did some more alterations to the bat, removing the fake tape residue and knob number. Apparently he did a good enough job to get a letter issued for it from PSA/Taube.
I'm not faulting the authenticator or the seller as I'm sure they were just unfortunate victoms of Walker. Just wanted to post this up so that nobody here would wind up buying an altered bat because of the PSA letter.
I used to own this bat back when it was a "legit" O'Neill rookie block letter bat. It still resembles that now but its been doctored several times.
The following photos are from when I owned it. It was autographed, had no number on the knob and showed good use.
The next group of 5 photos are from an ebay listing sometime after I sold it to Greg Walker, who used to go by Bird33Rose14 on these boards in the past. He altered the bat for some reason, removing the autograph, adding a number to the knob and creating fake markings as if tape had once been there and removed, in the form of O'Neill's later characteristic tape job.
You can read more about Mr Walker at:
and
Anyway, back to the current auction. The listing that Walker had made using the above photos was pulled shortly after it was uncovered. So I think its a safe assumption that the bat wound up with b-e-collectibles after he did some more alterations to the bat, removing the fake tape residue and knob number. Apparently he did a good enough job to get a letter issued for it from PSA/Taube.
I'm not faulting the authenticator or the seller as I'm sure they were just unfortunate victoms of Walker. Just wanted to post this up so that nobody here would wind up buying an altered bat because of the PSA letter.
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