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- We are always interested in buying your vintage cards. Single cards (graded or not) and entire collections! Send us your info about cards, condition, quantity and
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BASEBALL BASKETBALL SUPPLIES FOOTBALL
   
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GOLF TENNIS MEMORABILIA RACING
   
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Arkansas man buys
Baseball Card for 1.6 Million!
Sunday, August 03, 2008 
CHICAGO - An
Arkansas man bought a 1909 Honus Wagner baseball card for $1.62 million
at a memorabilia auction in Chicago, a sports auction company said
Saturday.The record price for a
baseball card is $2.8 million paid in 2007 for a near-mint condition
Wagner card released in 1909 by the American Tobacco Company.John
Rogers, 35, of North Little Rock, Ark., said his winning bid for the
T206 Wagner card is the realization of a decades-long dream.
"I
call this the holy grail of baseball cards," Rogers said in a phone
interview. "I've looked at a number of other specimens, sat in a few
other Wagner auctions. But this is the one that makes collecting worth
while."
Rogers has collected
baseball cards since he was 6. When he was in the second grade, he said
he cut out a copy of a Wagner card and carried it around in his pocket."Since I was 8 years old, I've hoped and dreamed that one day I'd be able to get one," Rogers said.
Bidders
at the Friday night auction also spent $42,000 on Ken Griffey, Jr.'s
600th home run ball and $240,000 for a 1938 Lou Gehrig Yankees road
jersey, said Doug Allen, Mastro Auctions chief operating office. The T206 cards are from a
series issued between 1909 and 1911. Allen said the card was in
excellent condition, and said the next highest bid, $1.3 million, was
placed on behalf of a client who wished to remain anonymous.
Wagner's
card was among the first of hundreds of cards of major league players
produced by the American Tobacco Co. and included in packages of
cigarettes.
Unlike other players, however,
Wagner quickly demanded that his card be withdrawn. Theories vary as to
why, with one being that he didn't believe American Tobacco paid him
enough. A nonsmoker, the Pittsburgh
shortstop was arguably the second-greatest baseball player of his era,
behind Ty Cobb. Wagner hit .344 during his rookie year of 1897, and
batted over .300 for 17 consecutive seasons, winning eight National
League batting titles.
One of the first five
players inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, Wagner retired in 1917
with more hits, runs, RBIs, doubles, triples and steals than any NL
player.
There are fewer than 100 Wagner
baseball cards in existence, said Julie Stoklosa, a spokeswoman for
Mastro Auctions, and less than ten are in excellent condition.
Allen said even the lowest graded Wagner baseball cards can fetch more than $150,000. "The mystique and allure of the T206 Wagner card continues to grow," Allen said.
Among
the previous owners of the card sold in 2007 were hockey great Wayne
Gretzky and Bruce McNall, former owner of the Los Angeles Kings, and late actor John Candy who
paid $451,000 for it in 1991.
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