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user-inactivated  ·  3848 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Behind the lucrative autograph industry

Will read this. Here is a really strange thread from the college football subreddit. An autograph dealer's anonymous AMA. Unsettling.

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Neat so far. But:

    Both companies endorsed a letter signed by turn-of-the-century baseball player Ed Delahanty. Neither appeared to notice that he misspelled his own name as "Delehanty."

It wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if Delahanty couldn't spell his own name. He was insane, drunk and eventually jumped into Niagara Falls.

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Well, that was strange. Didn't realize the whole industry was full of shit.