The NYPL HOT 100: The Top Artifacts Stolen & Missing From The New York Public...
By Peter J. Nash April 25, 2017 In 1921, the widow of Albert Goodwill Spalding donated his voluminous archive of baseball photographs, manuscripts and books to the Astor-Lenox and Tilden Foundation of...
View ArticleCurse of The Scam-bino? Charlie Sheen’s Babe Ruth Ring Suspected As A Fake...
By Peter J. Nash June 30, 2017 Scroll Down For Update: The Messy History of Charlie Sheen’s “Winning Ring” just got a bit messier with evidence mounting and suggesting that the alleged 1927 Babe Ruth...
View ArticleDodger Blues: How Did Historic MLB & Civil Rights Docs Make Their Way Onto...
By Peter J. Nash Oct. 5, 2017 Back in 2014, Hauls of Shame launched an investigation into allegations that rare letters and documents chronicling the integration of Major League Baseball via Branch...
View ArticleSteve Grad Continues Flawed & Fraudulent Authentications; Beckett Gets Bit By...
By Peter J. Nash Feb. 15, 2018 When Steve Grad was the senior authenticator at PSA/DNA he was responsible for numerous authentications of bogus materials which were featured in our Worst 100...
View ArticleDodger Blues: Historic Jackie Robinson Contracts Allegedly Stolen From L.A....
By Peter J. Nash February 27, 2018 (UPDATE) In October of 2017, Hauls of Shame published the first installment of our 3-part report detailing the auction appearances of internal Brooklyn Dodger...
View ArticleREA Spring Auction Features Big Ticket Forgeries Authenticated By PSA/DNA;...
By Peter J. Nash May 2, 2018 The Spring auction season is here and so continues the proliferation into the marketplace of fakes authenticated by PSA/DNA. The most stunning examples are two forged...
View ArticleJSA & Jimmy Spence Expose Their Own TPA Scam Linked To Fraudulent Mathewson LOAs
By Peter J. Nash October 4, 2018 Throughout the past few decades, astute dealers and knowledgeable collectors alike have surmised that the alleged autographed copies of Christy Mathewson’s 1910 book,...
View ArticleKeurajian Warned Collectors That Most Signed T206 Cards Are Fakes...
By Peter J. Nash Dec. 15, 2018 Author Ron Keurajian recently updated his must-have Hall of Fame autograph compendium and its new publication by McFarland gives collectors even more information to help...
View ArticleAuction of Alleged Stolen Jackie Robinson Contracts Postponed By Goldin;...
By Peter J. Nash January 29, 2019 Ken Goldin and Goldin Auctions were planning on selling the two historic Brooklyn Dodger contracts from 1945 and 1947 which document the breaking of Baseball’s color...
View ArticleCHIN MUSIC: PSA Is Target Of New FBI Probe; REA Removes Stolen Will But Fake...
By Peter J. Nash August 16, 2019 (Scroll to bottom for Update) Collectors Universe CEO, Joe Orlando, once threatened litigation against Hauls of Shame when we claimed his company (PSA) was founded on a...
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