This site is dedicated to investigative reporting related to the soon-to-be published book, Hauls of Shame. While the book deals with the wide ranging problems of fraud and corruption in the baseball collectibles and auction industries, its primary focus is on the mysteries of the considerable thefts of rare, historical baseball artifacts from the collections of the New York Public Library, Boston Public Library and the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

Hauls of Shame publishes breaking news, book excerpts, original essays and interviews with historians and those familiar with the investigations that have spurred earnest recovery efforts by the FBI, individual collectors and institutions. We offer an educational resource for the baseball collecting and research communities as the investigations yield evidence of items both suspected or confirmed as missing from the research archives of: NYPL’s “Spalding Baseball Collection;” BPL’s “McGreevey Baseball Picture Collection;” and the HOF’s “August Herrmann Papers Collection.”




Anyone with information that can aid the recovery efforts
may contact us at: tips@haulsofshame.com
We also suggest that those with any helpful information contact
the New York office of the FBI at: john.iannuzzi@ic.fbi.gov