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Not Too Late For SABR To Honor Pioneer Davis With A Monument Over His...
By Peter J. Nash June 29, 2015 “Too Late” Davis will finally get his dying wish and have a fitting headstone placed above his unmarked grave at Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery. The pending fulfillment...
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The Lion Roars: Net54’s Leon Luckey Busted Selling Stolen NYPL Relic In...
By Peter J. Nash July 13, 2015 Last year at the National Sports Collectors Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, an FBI agent took possession of an 1869 Red Stocking trade card owned by Net54 moderator Leon...
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Thick As Thieves: A History Of The Stolen 1869 Peck & Snyder Cards; Luckey &...
By Peter J. Nash July 23, 2015 Heritage Auction Galleries in Dallas, Texas, removed a valuable 1869 Red Stockings Peck & Snyder trade card from its upcoming sale at next weeks National Convention...
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Hall of Fame Heist Hits Close To Home: Jane Forbes Clark’s Family Papers...
By Peter J. Nash July 26, 2015 Letters to HOF founder Stephen Carlton Clark, an heir to the Singer Sewing Machine fortune, appear to have been stolen from the NBL. His granddaughter, Jane Forbes Clark...
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National Disgrace: PSA & JSA Deliver Another Hobby Fraud In The Midst Of...
By Peter J. Nash July 31, 2015 The Hall of Fame pitcher nicknamed the “Christian Gentleman” may be rolling over in his grave tonight as Goldin Auctions sells off what PSA and JSA have certified as an...
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Spence Pens Love Letter For Mastro Sentencing While Collectors Are Stuck With...
By Peter J. Nash August 14, 2015 Hauls of Shame has been saying it for years, but Jimmy Spence confirmed it in a letter filed recently in the Bill Mastro auction fraud case in Chicago. In the letter...
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CHIN MUSIC: RR Destroyed Bidding Records Like Mastro; Boehm, Grad and Orlando...
By Peter J. Nash October 14, 2015 -Bill Mastro was sentenced to 20 months in a Federal prison over the summer and his former IT director, William Boehm, was sentenced to probation and house arrest for...
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Source: Leon Luckey Says He’s Selling Out His Net54 Forum To Beckett For...
By Peter J. Nash November 13, 2015 Scroll to bottom for Update: Net54 moderator Leon Luckey wants out and according to several collectors who have spoken with him, he is trying to unload the collector...
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OPERATION BAMBINO: $50K Fake Pulled From Auction Exposes PSA/JSA...
By Peter J. Nash December 18, 2015 Hobbyists and autograph experts have for years alleged that the proliferation of Babe Ruth forgeries in the marketplace has been bolstered by the shoddy work of the...
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CHIN MUSIC: List Of Mastro Shill-Bidders Released; Auction & TPA Bigs...
By Peter J. Nash February 1, 2016 All hell has broken loose in the hobby now that the Mastro shill bid list was released in Doug Allen’s court filings for his upcoming sentencing in Chicago Federal...
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The Wagner Club: The Hobby’s “Holy Grails”& The Collectors Who Chased Down...
By Peter J. Nash April 15, 2016 Willie Ratner unknowingly founded this exclusive club as a youth when he secured his copy of the card straight out of a pack of Sweet Caporal cigarettes. Jefferson...
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Mastro Sits In Prison While MLB Owner & Phoenix Art Museum Show Off The...
By Peter J. Nash April 24, 2016 As Bill Mastro sits in a Federal jail cell, the now infamous Honus Wagner card that played a part in putting him there is on display in all its trimmed and fraudulently...
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Lord of The Rings: The Mystery of Lou Gehrig’s 1927 World Series Bling;...
By Peter J. Nash June 10, 2016 A few years ago a controversy commenced involving Charlie Sheen’s alleged 1927 Babe Ruth World Series ring in an article published at Deadspin which revealed how a...
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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...
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Curse 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...
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Dodger 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...
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Steve 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...
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Dodger 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...
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REA 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...
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JSA & 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,...
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