Watch ESPN 30-for-30: The Counterfeiter

Earlier this year, we showed you the trailer for the ESPN 30-for-30 short film on Operation Bullpen called ‘The Counterfeiter’.  Now, the entire show is available to view online.

The film is centered around master forger Greg Marino, an artist who became an expert in faking the signatures of Mickey Mantle, Joe DiMaggio, Ted Williams and hundreds of other athletes, entertainers and others.  

Marino says he wasn’t the mastermind behind the operation, which was busted by the FBI after an investigation into bogus autographs that began in 1997 and ended with several indictments three years later.  However, it was his writing that put hundreds of thousands of phony autographs into the marketplace in the late 1990s, many with equally fake letters of authenticity.

 You can watch the entire 22-minute show below.  A more in-depth look at the forgery ring is available in the book Operation Bullpen, written by author Kevin Nelson several years ago.