Quote Originally Posted by KAPKOLLEKTOR View Post
As far as I’m concerned, unless I was there to see that player come off the field after playing in a game, remove his cap from his head and hand it to a person, how do I know if it was really worn by that player???? (the answer: I don’t!!). A letter from someone whose mother was a friend of a friend of someone who knew someone who knew willie mays just doesn’t cut it.
yet you purchased the dodgers cap from mears with a letter attesting to its authenticity? anyway, i agree with much of what you said - seems like baseball caps would be pretty easy to doctor (which is too bad because they're such awesome game used collectibles). take the cap you recently purchased from mears, isn't it possible that it never even made it to the dodgers' clubhouse, that it may have been acquired directly from mcauliffe, perhaps even old inventory (that someone added a number to)? according to a collector at the ballcap blog (very cool site), even km had boxes of miscellaneous mlb caps that one could sift through...

"KM stopped making MLB caps but the company was still around on Kingston St. in Boston until 1991 or so. In 1983 they still had boxes of odd size MLB caps that you could sift through."

http://ballcapblog.blogspot.com/2010...o-company.html