RICK: Hey, how can I help you?
I have a 1962 American League All-Star team-signed baseball.
OLD MAN: Hey, Rick, who's on first?
I'm not gonna play that.
OK.
RICK: [laughs]
ANNOUNCER: Play ball!
I love baseball.
I grew up with it.
I watched a lot of games with my dad growing up.
I collect a lot of baseball stuff.
I really like the rare, one-of-a-kind items.
I'd like to sell the ball because my wife
and I are going out of town for our 10th anniversary.
I'd like to get about $2,000 for the ball,
but I'd settle for around $800.
RICK: So where did you get this?
CRAIG: I bought it from the lady whose husband got it
originally signed at the game.
Back then, they played two games.
I think this was signed in Chicago.
So you don't have any paperwork on it
or anything like that?
CRAIG: I don't have any paperwork on it.
I've collected for a long time, so I'm pretty confident.
RICK: All right.
Do you mind if I take it out?
Sure, go ahead.
RICK: Uh, it's like a damn Rubik's cube.
Here, you do it.
Oh OK.
All right.
OLD MAN: You got to be smarter than the case, son.
I know.
We have-- I am not wearing my glasses.
OLD MAN: Do you want me to read it to you?
No.
You're not wearing your glasses, either.
I don't need them.
Yes, you do.
You're supposed to wear your glasses.
You're supposed to take your old crazy medicine every morning.
[laughter]
It's just American League signed it, no National League?
CRAIG: Yep, just American. Yep.
RICK: No Hank Aaron signed-- - Nope.
RICK: --or anything like that? All right.
OK, we have Yogi Berra and Mickey Mantle.
CRAIG: You have Roger Maris on the underside here.
This is the year after he broke the home run record.
He was a two-time AL MVP.
RICK: This is the entire roster?
CRAIG: All 30, yep.
RICK: That's really cool, because being an All-Star team,
they're only together for one day a year.
That's a really rare, weird thing.
So what do you want to do with it?
CRAIG: I'd like to sell it.
RICK: How much do you want it?
Well, I know the Maris single-signed balls go
for about $2,000, so I figure right around there would be
a good price range to start at.
RICK: The problem is, it's so hard to price things
when there's only one of them.
Do you mind if I have someone come and take a look at it?
No, I'd be delighted to have it checked out.
Thanks.
CRAIG (VOICEOVER): I'm a little worried about the expert.
If this ball turns out to be fake,
I'm gonna be upset I got taken by a little old lady in Kansas.
JEREMY BROWN: Looks like you found a baseball.
1962 All-Star Game, American League.
Very nice, man.
The All-Star game gives fans a great chance
to see the best of the AL face off against the best
of the National League.
Here specifically in 1962, these were some amazing games.
Over the years, the All-Star games changed tremendously.
Back in '62, they actually had two different games
a month apart from one another.
These days, we have the Home Run Derby attached to it,
and also the winner of the All-Star game
decides home field advantage for the World Series.
RICK: Well, do your magic.
JEREMY BROWN: All right, man, let's
see who we have on this ball.
On the bottom, Hall-of-Famer Tigers great Al Kaline.
And right above him, another Tiger slugger, Rocky Calavedo.
And then we go over here to the sweet spot--
we have Yogi Berra, Mickey Mantle.
And on the reverse side, it's a little tough to make out,
but we have Roger Maris.
If this baseball has all real autographs,
man, you're talking a couple of thousand bucks here.
Wow.
JEREMY BROWN: But the one big concern with balls from his era
are clubhouse signatures.
Clubhouse signature is basically
your nice term for forgery?
JEREMY BROWN: It--
[laughs]
JEREMY BROWN: --yes.
Yes and no.
By definition, a forgery is-- it's an attempt
to actually fool somebody.
With clubhouse signatures, when you have a multi-signed item,
they're not meant to fool somebody.
They're just not the actual person who signed it.
RICK: OK.
Yeah, are they clubhouse signatures, or are they legit?
All right, man, got a little bit of news for you.
In Kaline and Aparicio, 100% good.
But right here on the sweet spot, Yogi Berra and Mickey
Mantle, both clubhouse.
Very popular Yankees players, both in the Hall of Fame.
Signed a lot of autographs over the years.
I have never seen an autograph of either of them
look like that.
Now the main one is Roger Maris.
Of all the guys on this baseball,
he's the one name you want to see.
What you want to look at is the R in Roger and the M in Maris.
Now, the R in Roger forms an oval up
top that slants to the right.
The M in Maris, it starts off as high as the R, snakes down,
and then he brings it right back up about halfway.
CRAIG: OK.
JEREMY BROWN: Good news for you, this Maris is 100% authentic.
Great.
Bad news, he could not have picked
a worse spot to sign it because of the stamping behind it.
You're looking at about 600 to 800 bucks.
- OK. - Thanks, man.
JEREMY BROWN: Hey, you got it.
Appreciate it.
So what do you want for it?
He says it's worth 6 to 800 bucks, so how about 650?
650's not going to happen.
The problem is, I sell the thing and I say,
these two signatures right here, Mickey Mantle and Yogi Berra--
two of the coolest signatures on there--
they're not exactly real.
I'll give you 400 bucks for it.
In my opinion as a collector, I
think the Maris makes the ball.
But how about 550?
I'll tell you what, I'll go 450.
I won't go a penny more.
All right, what the heck?
450's fine.
All right, we'll do some paperwork.
CRAIG: OK, thank you.
RICK: It may have some clubhouse signatures on it.
But $450 for a baseball signed by some of the biggest
legends of the game?
This is a pretty good score.