Collectors Universe

David Hall
President, Collectors Universe

Expertise: U.S. coins.
Other Areas: Rare records, sportscards, 20th century decorative arts.

David Hall arguably understands collectibles markets and how they work better than anyone in the world. He became a full-time rare coin dealer in 1972 and was quickly one of the major players. In the 1980's he was the man behind the major market innovations of the decade; guaranteed buy/sell markets, electronic trading, and his piece de resistance, the Professional Coin Grading Service (PCGS). In 1990 David Hall was named Orange County "Entrepreneur Of The Year" by Inc. Magazine. The February 20, 1996 issue of Numismatic News called him "the man who changed the rare coin market forever." The July, 1999 issue of Coinage Magazine named David Hall one of the top "Numismatists of the Century."

In the 1990s David turned his attention to the sports collectibles market. He founded Professional Sports Authenticator (PSA), which by 1998 had duplicated the PCGS model of market dominance. In August 1996, the Internet called and David Hall purchased the already thriving Coin Universe, the first commercial collectibles site on the Internet. In December, 1998, he consolidated his companies and formed Collectors Universe and took the company public in November, 1999. At Collectors Universe, David Hall is part of the corporate management team and oversees the three grading services, PCGS, PSA and PSE.

John Dannreuther
Founder, Professional Coin Grading Service (PCGS)

Expertise: U.S. coins.

John Dannreuther grew up in the rare coin business. His father ran trade paper ads in the 1950s as V.J. Dannreuther and Sons. After graduating from the University of Mississippi with a degree in chemistry, John went back into the coin business, becoming a full-time dealer in 1973. Today he is considered one of the top rare coin experts of all time.

In 1986, John was one of the co-founders of Professional Coin Grading Service. In 1997, he was the principal text author of "The Official Guide To Coin Grading And Counterfeit Detection," the Numismatic Literary Guild's "Book Of The Year" award winner for 1998. He was a board member of the Professional Numismatists Guild from 1993 to 2003.

Ron Guth
President, CoinFacts.com

Expertise: U.S. and World coins.

Ron Guth is a licensed Certified Public Accountant who has been involved professionally in numismatics for nearly forty years as a collector, dealer, researcher, and writer. For the past two decades, he served as an auctioneer for virtually every major numismatic firm, selling classic rarities such as the 1913 Liberty Head Nickel and the 1804 Silver Dollar. In 2001, Ron authored the award-winning Coin Collecting For Dummies. In 2002, he co-authored United States Proof and Mint Sets 1936-2002, which won the Numismatic Literary Guild (NLG) Award for Best Numismatic Investment Book. In 2003, Ron co-authored the best selling book The 100 Greatest U.S. Coins, which went on to win the Professional Numismatic Guild and the NLG Best Book of the Year Awards. In 2003, Ron received the prestigious President's Award from the American Numismatic Association in recognition for his numerous contributions to numismatics.

Joe Orlando
President, PSA and PSA/DNA Authentication Services
Editor, Sports Market Report

Expertise: Sportscards and Memorabilia.

Joe Orlando has been an advanced collector of sportscards and memorabilia for over 25 years. Orlando attended Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California where he studied communications and was the starting catcher for the baseball team. After a brief stint in the minor leagues, Orlando obtained a Juris Doctor from Whittier Law School in Southern California in the spring of 1999. During the last eleven years, Orlando has authored several collecting guides and dozens of articles for Collectors Universe, Inc. Orlando has also authored two books for Collectors Universe. Orlando's first book, The Top 200 Sportscards in the Hobby, was released in the summer of 2002. His second book, Collecting Sports Legends, was released in the summer of 2008. Orlando has appeared on several radio and television programs as a hobby expert including ESPN's award-winning program Outside the Lines and HBO's Real Sports, as the featured guest. Currently, Orlando is the President of PSA and PSA/DNA, the largest trading card and sports memorabilia authentication services in the hobby. He is also Editor of the company's nationally distributed Sports Market Report, which under Orlando's direction has developed into a leading resource in the market. Orlando also contributed the foreword and last chapter to The T206 Collection: The Players and Their Stories, a 2010 release.

Mike Sherman
President, Professional Stamp Experts (PSE)

Expertise: U.S. coins.
Other Areas: Rare Records, Phonographs, Radios, TVs, Comic Books, Collectible Computers.

Mike Sherman comes to Collectors Universe after serving 18 years as General Manager of the nation's largest rare coin wholesaler. A 1977 graduate of the University of Virginia, he went on to earn an MBA from Washington University in St. Louis. Since 1979, he has been involved in the rare coin business full time as a manager, market analyst and writer. He has won numerous awards for writing and publishing, and has conducted educational seminars for the American Numismatic Association and local clubs. He is a contributor to the Guide Book of United States Coins (Red Book) and served as editor of Legacy Magazine from 1988 through 1990. Mike is a member of most leading numismatic organizations, including the Numismatic Literary Guild, the American Numismatic Association and the Florida United Numismatists. In addition, he is a professional, licensed auctioneer, and has conducted auctions across the country since 1988. Besides U.S. coins, Mike is also an expert in rare records, rare radios, rare TVs, collectible computers, and comic books.

Miles Standish
Senior Grader and Vice-President of Business Development, Professional Coin Grading Service (PCGS)

Expertise: All U.S. coins.
Specialties: U.S. Coins and Memorabilia.

Miles Standish has graded and authenticated many coins, from the finest 1913 Liberty Nickel to the "Holy Grail" of 1804 Dollars. He was a co-founder of Collectors Universe and was the first full time coin grader at PCGS. He served as Vice President of PSA; authenticating Mark McGwire's 70th homerun ball and Hank Aaron's 714th bat and ball.

Miles' programs have substantially increased the number of graded coins in the marketplace. He provides strategic advice to coin dealers, insight to serious collectors; collaborates with publishers, mentors young hobbyists, presents expert testimony at trial and introduces successful coin packaging programs for a variety of modern coins.

He spearheaded the development of limited edition commemorative coin and autograph holders for former Presidents Bush and Ford, Lance Armstrong, General Tommy Franks, Kathy Sullivan, Jessica Lynch and former U.S. Mint Directors Donna Pope, Jay W. Johnson and Philip Diehl. In fact, it was a result of the personal recommendation of President Ford that President Bush met with Miles and committed to the program.

Mike Sargent
Head Verifier, Professional Coin Grading Service (PCGS)

Expertise: U.S. & World counterfeit coins.
Specialties: U.S. gold coins, territorial gold coins

Mike Sargent is the Head Verifier at PCGS and is a leading expert on counterfeit detection in both US and World coins. He maintains a large database of known counterfeits and is constantly looking for new pieces to add. When Mike could find the extra time, he authored many articles on counterfeit detection for the "Rare Coin Market Report". He enjoys all early US gold coins especially territorial gold coins after spending 8 years working with Harlan White, from San Diego, while receiving valuable experience handling such pieces. Since joining PCGS early in 1989, Mike has graded over 5 million coins for PCGS and is considered one of the top grading experts in the world.

Reza Tabatabai
Director Of Grading, Professional Sports Authenticator (PSA)

Expertise: Sportscard Grading.

Reza Tabatabai has been a collector for over 15 years. Reza is a senior member of the PSA Grading team with vast knowledge in all areas of collectible sports cards. He has been grading professionally for PSA since 1998. Reza earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Finance from Fresno State University in 1990.

Steve Van Maanen
Assistant Director of Grading, Professional Sports Authenticator (PSA)

Expertise: Sportscard Grading.

Steve Van Maanen started his career with Professional Coin Grading Service in 1987 at only age 19. He has been collecting sportscards since his childhood. He joined the PSA division in 1993 and has never looked back. He brings with him years of experience and has helped solidify a top notch grading department. On his off time Steve enjoys spending time with his wife and two beautiful daughters.

Gordon Wrubel
Senior Grader, Professional Coin Grading Service (PCGS)

Expertise: U.S. coins.
Other Areas: Rare records.

Gordon Wrubel, Senior Grader at Professional Coin Grading Service , is a well-known expert in rare U.S. coins specializing in top quality rare U.S. gold. He is in charge of our inventory acquisitions and consults with clients who are building some of the world's finest collections. In 1974, he became a full-time coin dealer and has sold over $50,000,000 in valuable coins during his career. He holds a life membership in the American Numismatic Association and in 1980 became a member of the Professional Numismatists Guild. In 1986, Gordon was one of the founders of the Professional Coin Grading Service and served as Director of Grading until 1995. He is also one of the world's top experts in rare "rock and roll" records.

Van Simmons
Director, Collectors Universe

Expertise: U.S. coins.
Other Areas: Rare Firearms, Western Memorabilia, Collectible Knives, Western Americana.

Van Simmons is a life-long entrepreneur, collector, and collectibles dealer. He has been a rare coin collector since age 12 and a rare coin dealer since 1979. Van has also been a dealer in sportscards and memorabilia, rare firearms and Western memorabilia, and collectible knives. His collecting interests include antique golf clubs, English pottery, Bowie knives, American and French art glass, Western Americana, Indian baskets, and Gold Rush memorabilia.

In 1979, he began buying coins from David Hall, and by 1981 they had become business partners. Since that time, Van has become the number one coin salesman of all time, acquiring over $250 million worth of rare coins for collectors and investors.

In 1986, Van and David launched Professional Coin Grading Service (PCGS) and in 1991 they launched Professional Sports Authenticator (PSA). He is the fourth largest shareholder of Collectors Universe and serves on the Board of Directors.

Jon Bahner
Senior Grader, Professional Sports Authenticator (PSA)

Expertise: Sportscard grading.

Jon Bahner started with Professional Coin Grading Service in 1986. He has had many responsibilities in his tenure at the company. For sportscards, Jon started collecting when he was 12 years old. In the early 1990s he was one of the principals of Total Sportscards, a firm that specialized in all areas of the sportscard market. Jon joined the PSA team in 1995 and is now considered one of the top grading experts in the market.

Steve Grad
Principal Authenticator, PSA/DNA Authenication Services

Expertise: Entertainment, historical, and sports autographs.

Chicago native Steve Grad originally started his career in radio. His major in Broadcast Journalism at Columbia College launched him into the radio world for seven years. Grad worked as an anchor/reporter and show host with One on One Radio Network, now known as Sporting News Radio, the largest syndicated sports radio network. With his roots deep in a city immersed in sports history, it was natural for Mr. Grad to begin collecting autographs. Meeting these modern athletes and witnessing their signatures time after time proved to be invaluable! Grad's interest in autographs spilled over into entertainment, music and politics. Through his travels in Europe, Canada, and the U.S. in the last twenty years, he has collected over 100,000 in-person autographs.

Grad began setting up at shows and selling autographs in the mid-1980s. Fifteen years later he joined the sports industry's largest auction house, MastroNet. For two years, he used his talents to assist in the authentication and acquisition of memorabilia for Mastro's sport and non-sport auctions. In addition, Grad was one of the select writers for Mastro's catalogs. Grad joined PSA/DNA Authentication Services in 2002. At PSA/DNA, Steve is a senior authenticator, examining millions of dollars worth of entertainment, historical, and sports autographs.

Ron Howard
Director of Grading, Professional Coin Grading Service (PCGS)

Expertise: U.S. Coins.

Ron Howard has been a collector/hobbyist since 1959. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Mississippi in 1970 and became a professional numismatist in 1972. Up until 1986, when he joined PCGS as the first grader hired, he was a coin buyer and cataloguer for several major numismatic firms, examining, purchasing, or cataloging virtually all major U.S. collections during that period. He has attended over 300 numismatic conventions. Ron has authored a book on silver dollars and many articles, and has contributed to numerous auction catalogues, including at least four American Numismatic Association auction catalogues.

Rex Bishop
Professional Stamp Experts (PSE)

Expertise: Stamps.

Rex Bishop, formerly a philatelist with the Spink/Shreves Philatelic Galleries has joined PSE as a full time expert. Rex, who has 33 years of philatelic experience, started in 1975 with Roger Koerber in Michigan. He moved to Dallas in 1987 to work for Steve Ivy Philatelic Auctions, which later became Ivy, Shreve and Mader and even later Ivy and Mader. Finally, in 2002, he joined Shreves Philatelic Galleries, now Spink/Shreves.

James Camner
Consultant Authenticator, PSA/DNA Authentication Services

Expertise: Performing Arts Autographs including Opera, Classical Music, Theater, Dance and Cinema.

After receiving a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania, Camner founded La Scala Autographs in 1975 as the first firm in America to specialize in autographs of opera, classical music, theater and the performing arts. In his more than 30 year career, Camner quickly became a recognized expert in this field, and has appeared on the Joe Franklin Show, was a consultant for the Time-Life Collectibles Encyclopedia and served on the Vetting Committee of the prestigious Winter Antiques Show in New York City, and has done numerous appraisals for collections donated to premiere American institutions including the Harvard Theater Collection, the Metropolitan Opera Archives and Guild, the New York Philharmonic, the University of Buffalo, the New York Public Library and the Library of Congress, among others.

Camner has been the autograph consultant for the Metropolitan Opera Guild for over 20 years, is a founding member of the Professional Autograph Dealers Association, in which he has served as an officer, and has been a member of the prestigious Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America for more than 30 years. Camner is the author of more than 10 books on the performing arts and five photo histories for Dover, including: "The Great Composers in Historic Photographs" and "Stars of the American Musical Theater," and has written feature articles for "Opera News." Camner's pioneering 1978 illustrated "Film Autographs 1893-1941" which listed and illustrated over 1100 autographs, created an industry standard and it is still used as a valuable reference guide.

Rich Consola
Consultant Authenticator, PSA/DNA Authentication Services

Expertise: Elvis Autographs.

In 1957, Rich Consola saw Elvis perform in Buffalo, New York. Elvis was wearing his famous Gold Lame jacket that day and, since then, Rich has been a lifelong fan and collector. Rich has thoroughly studied Elvis' handwriting and signature for over 20 years. Today, Rich is considered one of the foremost authorities on Elvis autographs and is known worldwide for his exceptional knowledge.

Bob Eaton
Consultant, PSA/DNA Authentication Services

Expertise: Entertainment, Military, Space, Art, Animation, and Political autographs.

Bob Eaton took a simple hobby and grew it into a highly successful autograph business. Fascination with, and respect for, history was a natural cornerstone to his eventual, and continued, study of signatures. As sole proprietor of R&R Enterprises, he grew his one-man, one room operation into a professionally-staffed office which, to date, has published over 270 consecutive monthly catalogs. Today, with over 25 years in business, Bob is well established as one of the foremost authenticators in the autograph industry.

Marshall Fogel
Consultant Authenticator, PSA/DNA Authentication Services

Expertise: Photographs.

Marshall Fogel has a name that many hobbyists are familiar with. Owner of, arguably, the finest overall sports memorabilia collection in the hobby, Fogel has long been considered one of the industry's premier collectors. In fact, pieces from his vast collection are featured in Stephen Wong's book Smithsonian Baseball, Inside the World's Finest Private Collections which was released in the fall of 2005. In addition, Fogel was the first collector inducted into the PSA Set Registry Hall of Fame in 2003.

Fogel, along with fellow PSA/DNA photograph expert Henry Yee, co-authored A Portrait of Baseball Photography (MastroNet 2005). This landmark book is Volume Two of the MastroNet Vintage Guides. Fogel also contributed to Volume One entitled MastroNet Reference and Price Guide for Collecting Game Used Baseball Bats (MastroNet 2001). In addition, Fogel has been a long time guest writer for the monthly publication Sports Market Report (SMR), the official price guide for PSA and PSA/DNA certified collectibles.

Presently, Fogel is the senior partner of the law firm of Fogel, Keating and Wagner specializing in personal injury and workers' compensation.

Steve Hart
Consultant, Professional Sports Authenticator (PSA)

Expertise: Unopened Material.

Since the age of 9, Steve Hart has been involved with sportscards in one way or another. His early passion as a collector led him to local card shows and, in 1985, he set up at a convention for the first time. Five years later, at the age of 20, he opened his retail sportscards store, Baseball Card Exchange. Steve's integrity and focus on service helped earn him the status as one of Chicago's premier sportscard dealers. Over the next 15 years, his expanding business moved to newer locations, each one bigger than the last. In July of this year, the Baseball Card Exchange moved to its current location, containing more than 8,000 square feet of office and warehouse. Steve's fascination with unopened material started early and he later became one of the foremost authorities on the subject after years of study. Over the last 20 years, Steve has examined thousands upon thousands of unopened items. This experience has given him the reputation as one of its top unopened specialists in the hobby. Steve became a father this past summer to his beautiful daughter Maggie!

TJ Kaye
Consultant Authenticator, PSA/DNA Authentication Services

Expertise: Sports autographs.

TJ Kaye, born originally in New York and now in Boca Raton, FL, is Pres/CEO of T.J.'s Collectibles, Inc. which has been established since 1991. What started out as a passion for collecting Autographs and Championship Jewelry turned into a well respected company. TJ has devoted his personal collecting to Mickey Mantle in honor of his father and for over 20 years has studied Mickey's signature. In fact, TJ has become known as one of the leading Mantle autograph experts in the hobby. In addition, TJ has orchestrated numerous private and public signings with Hofer's from all sports and has gained a tremendous amount of knowledge through his vast in-person experience throughout the years.

Kevin Keating
Consultant Authenticator, PSA/DNA Authentication Services

Expertise: Baseball autographs.

Kevin Keating has been a lifetime baseball autograph collector since the age of ten. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1982 where he finished first in his class in Chinese language. After leaving the Army, Keating started selling some of the autographs he had received as a child, and eventually founded his company, www.QualityAutographs.com, in 1992. In 1999, he coauthored The Negro Leagues Autograph Guide (Landmark Books), and he has also published numerous articles on autographs and related topics. He has appeared on a variety of television and radio shows as a guest expert on baseball autographs and forgeries and is frequently interviewed and quoted in print media. These publications include The San Francisco Examiner; The San Francisco Chronicle; The Washington Post; The New York Post, The New York Daily News, U.S.A. Today, Baseball Weekly, The Miami Herald, among others. He has also provided authentication and/or appraising services for organizations that include nationally known auction companies, The National Sports Gallery, and many private collections. He has advised the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on matters related to the identification of suspected forgers, and the FBI called on him to testify as a government expert witness during the well-known Operation Bullpen investigation. Keating also received his Master's Degree in International Public Policy from Johns Hopkins University in 2002. He currently resides with his wife in Alexandria, Virginia.

Kevin Low
Authenticator, PSA/DNA Authentication Services

Expertise: Sports Autographs, and Contemporary Entertainment.

Born and raised in Los Angeles, CA, Kevin Low has been an in-person autograph collector for over 18 years. As a youngster living just minutes from Dodger Stadium, he obtained his first in-person autograph from then Dodgers rookie, Fernando Valenzuela. The autograph bug hit him while attending a concert with his parents, where he met his childhood idol and obtained his next autograph, Henry "The Fonz" Winkler. In addition to obtaining signatures of athletes in all major sports, he began collecting celebrity autographs at filming locations, movie premieres, major awards shows, charity functions, and a host of other hot spots!

With a large inventory of signed memorabilia, this full-time collector-turned-dealer built a reputation rapidly, and he began selling autographs to some of the nation's most well known dealers. Meeting Hollywood's elite as well as witnessing and documenting variations of their signatures in different situations for almost two decades has proven to be an important asset. No longer a dealer, Kevin now utilizes his expertise as one of PSA/DNA's autograph experts. Specializing in modern sports and celebrity autographs, Kevin brings a wealth of knowledge and skill to autograph authentication.

Vince Malta
Consultant Authenticator, PSA/DNA Authentication Services

Expertise: Game Used Bats.

Vince Malta has been an avid collector of professional game used bats for over 15 years. His passion for collecting turned into an absolute obsession in his pursuit for knowledge in accurately authenticating the time period a bat was manufactured for a player. He is known by collectors as a person very willing to share his bat collecting knowledge and has been a great ambassador to the bat-collecting hobby. He co-authored the very first book exclusively devoted to collecting game used bats. This book has been relied on as a primary reference guide to countless collectors, auction houses, and baseball museums, including the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. Malta has been a bat authenticator for three years with Grey Flannel Auction House, and has an impeccable reputation for consistently providing accurate, unbiased expert opinions.

John Reznikoff
Consultant Authenticator, PSA/DNA Authentication Services

Expertise: Historic and Political Autographs.

Specializing in historic items John Reznikoff is the founder of University Archives, a leading document and manuscript firm specializing in the appraisal and authentication of historic texts. The company has bought and sold rare documents from its inception. John is affiliated with, and has served as an officer in, multiple professional organizations dedicated to the autograph industry. In fact, John served as Vice President and subsequently, President of the International Autograph Dealers Association. Moreover, John conceived and founded the Professional Autograph Dealers Association. He has authored many published articles for Manuscripts, Pen and Quill, Linn's, and American Philatelist. John's experience and expertise in identifying historical items has led to appearances and features in Good Morning America, The New York Times, Smithsonian, and Newsweek.

Zach Rullo
Authenticator, PSA/DNA Authentication Services

Expertise: Contemporary Sports and Entertainment Autographs.

Originally from Chicago, Zach Rullo started collecting in-person autographs at the young age of 13. The collecting bug started with the MLB All-Star game at the nearby Wrigley Field. Since then, visits to various ballparks, especially Chicago Stadium, expanded his collection. Soon enough, his interest in other sports grew as well; his collection now includes football, basketball, hockey, boxing, soccer, tennis, and golf. Meeting these modern athletes and witnessing their signatures mature from their college or rookie seasons through the years have proven to be invaluable! Rullo's interest in autographs quickly turned over into entertainment and music. Through his travels in Europe, Canada, Mexico and all across the U.S., he has collected well over 80,000 in-person autographs. Rullo's pursuit for autographs has provided PSA/DNA with an extensive library of exemplars and impeccable expertise in modern day autographs. Zach is a world class expert in contemporary sports and entertainment autographs, especially contemporary music autographs. At PSA/DNA, Zach examines millions of dollars worth of contemporary autographs a year.

Lenny Steren
Consultant, Professional Sports Authenticator (PSA)

Expertise: Tickets.

Born and raised in New York City, Lenny has been in the hobby as a collector and/or dealer of baseball tickets and cards since 1980. After graduating from the University of Hartford, Lenny worked as a Public Relations Representative for the 1990 and 1991 NY Mets. He moved into the world of print advertising on Madison Avenue from 1991 to 1998. In June of 1998, Lenny started Mookie's Tickets and Sports Memorabilia, specializing in 1910 - present baseball and football tickets.

Moving to Pasadena, CA in 2000, Lenny's sports ticket inventory has grown to over 125,000. He enjoys tireless hours of research and goes to great lengths to investigate the background and history associated with baseball and football tickets. Lenny also works closely with the research department at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. Lenny is known throughout the U.S. to be an expert on regular season, playoff and World Series full tickets and stubs - both season and box office tickets. He has made appearances on Fox's collectibles show "FX," giving his expert opinion on baseball tickets and programs. Known for his honesty, this friendly New Yorker has a reputation for "telling it like it is."

John Taube
Consultant Authenticator, PSA/DNA Authentication Services

Expertise: Game Used Bats.

John Taube's allure and appreciation of game used bats lead him to acquire the skills and knowledge needed to feed his collecting habit. After twenty years, his expertise on physical attributes of game use and bat dating have pinned him as one of the world's leading experts. His most memorable authentication is a side written Babe Ruth game used bat with 11 home run notches. As any other bat, this one in particular had some history behind it. It was used by Ruth in the late '20s, cracked, and then returned to Hillerich & Bradsby! Ultimately, Taube's part time hobby became a full time interest in March 2002. Taube, in conjunction with Vince Malta, is leading the way to standardizing bat authentication in the sports collectibles industry. Together, they have an ongoing commitment to expand the existing knowledge of game used bats.

Henry Yee
Consultant Authenticator, PSA/DNA Authentication Services

Expertise: Photographs.

Henry Yee's interest in photography as a form of artistic expression and historical preservation started at the age of 15 at Brooklyn Technical High School where he studied photography and photojournalism. Yee then earned his business degree from the University at Buffalo's Business School of Management. He has spent the last ten years on Wall Street consulting with Fortune 500 companies and is the owner of HY Ventures, LLC, which specializes in organizational development and IT/business systems management solutions.

As a collector and dealer of sports memorabilia and sports photography for over two decades, Yee has handled millions of news photographs from public and private archives around the country, including some of the hobby's finest examples. With his vast experience, Yee has been able to amass one of the largest exemplar archives of news photo and wire photo stamping specimens in the world. He is the co-author of A Portrait of Baseball Photography published by MastroNet (2005). The landmark volume was the first exhaustive account of baseball photographs.

Bob Zafian
Consultant Authenticator, PSA/DNA Authentication Services

Expertise: Golf Autographs.

Bob Zafian, a lifelong NJ resident, acquired his first autograph in 1969 (OJ Simpson at the NY auto show-FREE). Since that time and for the last 29 years, Bob has attended numerous sporting events, charity dinners, book signings, movie shoots, golf tournaments, private celebrity signings and TV shows, amassing tens of thousands of autographs. A dealer since 1989, Bob has been selling autographs and memorabilia from every field from entertainment, sports, literature, and politics, specializing in golf. Zafian has built one of the largest signed scorecard, course and tournament-used golf pin flag collections in the hobby. Owner of Green Jacket Auctions, the country's foremost "golf only" auction house, Zafian is regarded as one of the leading authorities on golf autographs.