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Starting Five: Rollercoaster Start for Fish

Starting Five is our wrapup of the previous day's baseball action, with a quick nod to what's ahead.You Oughta Know ...That the Marlins have had an interesting opening three weeks. After Sunday's 13-2 loss to the Phillies, which was so ugly that outfielder Cody Ross pitched the ninth inning, the Fish have dropped six in a...

Honus Wagner Is Totally Pwning Barry Bonds

Speaking of no one caring about Barry Bonds, how's that record-breaker auction going these days? Oh, yeah: not good.With just eight days left in the auction, No. 756 is doing meager returns at the online auction house. For a ball that would probably have fetched $500,000 on the open market -- and far more just a few years...

David Copperfield Will Destroy And Repair Your Baseball Card

Here's Wayne Gretzky and former Kings owner Bruce McNall watching magician David Copperfield tearing their new $500,000 Honus Wagner baseball card to pieces. But, feat not! He's a magician, dummy. Just watch the clip and be amazed by his skills. I mean, if magicians can do "magic" and all, why don't they just make a...

Honus Wagner Card Sells for Record $2.35 Million

I collected baseball cards for a few years as a kid, and for me and my friends the card we were always looking for was the 1989 Upper Deck Ken Griffey, Jr. rookie card. Upper Deck had just entered the market and was more or less revolutionizing the industry -- the high-quality paper practically felt like plastic, and, holy...

HonusWagner News From the Web

05/07/12 Rare Honus Wagner rookie card for sale Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Pittsburgh PA Debra Colvin remembers talking to a friend of hers, a collector of sports memorabilia, about a mysterious tobacco baseball card she and her husband had inherited from her mother-in-law.