Those who collect baseball board games and the like know Mark Cooper. He assembled one of the best collections known to date, with complete games and fabulous boxes many have never seen. Now the entire collection is available via private treaty through Heritage Auctions.
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Investigation proves Cobb items were fakes
Now, over a decade after these items first appeared on the pages of Sports Illustrated and a Sotheby’s auction catalogue, an investigation conducted by a board member of the Ty Cobb Museum has determined these once-venerated items are far from genuine. Thanks to his research, a long-standing baseball fraud has been exposed and the record is finally set straight.
