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Nuns' Honus Wagner Baseball Card Nets $262,000 at Auction

BALTIMORE (AP) -- A rare Honus Wagner baseball card that was bequeathed to an order of Roman Catholic nuns has sold at auction for $262,000. The Baltimore-based School Sisters of Notre Dame put the card up for sale after inheriting it from the brother of a deceased nun. The sale price exceeded the expectations of...

Honus Wagner Baseball Card Donated to Nuns

The Lord works in mysterious ways. The latest proof: unsuspecting nuns were in possession of a Honus Wagner baseball card, one of the most sought-after pieces of sports memorabilia anywhere ... and they didn't even know it. "It just boggles your mind," Sister Virginia Muller told The Associated Press. "I can't remember a...

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...

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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.

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Johannes Peter "Honus" Wagner (; February 24, 1874 – December 6, 1955 ), nicknamed "The Flying Dutchman" due to his superb speed and German heritage ("Dutch" in this instance being an alteration of "Deutsch"), was an American Major League Baseball shortstop.

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