Friday, April 12, 2013
NPR: Dealer Says He Doctored Most Valuable Baseball Card Ever Sold.
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posted on April 12, 2013 at 07:00 PM by Infinite Joost (Voxter) to baseball cards, collecting, honus wagner, pirates, scams
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A judge has rejected a plea agreement from the former head of a sports memorabilia auction house who admitted to using shill bidders to drive up prices and to altering the most valuable baseball card ever sold.
William Mastro of Mastro Auctions admitted to doctoring the 1909 Honus Wagner cigarette card that was once owned by hockey great Wayne Gretzky. The card sold for $2.8 million in 2007.
Once again The Great One shows uncanny instincts.
Sunday, April 07, 2013
T206 Honus Wagner baseball card sets $2.1M auction mark - ESPN
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Wow!
The most coveted baseball card of all-time proved its worth once again early Saturday morning, as the 1909-11 T206 Honus Wagner card sold for $2.1 million in an online auction.
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Top Ten Terrible Airbrush Jobs | March | 2013 Articles
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No more bikini lines!
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Grantland: 30 for 30 Shorts: Holy Grail: The T206 Honus Wagner
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On Morning Joe…someone made the mistake of waking up Mike Barnicle and he immediately started bragging about this short made by his sons.
Read More...The latest film is Holy Grail: The T206 Honus Wagner from Nick and Colin Barnicle. The T206 Honus Wagner is the most famous baseball card in the world. Bought and sold many times over, the copy once owned by Wayne Gretzky has now appreciated to nearly $3 million. But, this gem may have been doctored. From mere speculation, the accusations of alteration ...
Thursday, February 07, 2013
Yahoo/Reuters - Lovering:“Rarer than rare” 1865 baseball card sells for $92,000
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posted on February 07, 2013 at 10:27 PM by Lassus to baseball cards, brooklyn, julio franco
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BOSTON (Reuters) - A rare 1865 photograph of the Brooklyn Atlantics baseball team, discovered at a Maine yard sale and considered one of the first baseball cards ever, sold for $92,000 at an auction on Wednesday.
The photograph mounted on a card, known as a carte de viste, is the only one of its kind known to exist, though the Library of Congress has a similar image made from a different negative, Thibodeau said before the auction.
“It’s rarer than rare.”
Read More...It was unclear how many of the cards ...
Thursday, December 20, 2012
BaseballCardVandals.com
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posted on December 20, 2012 at 08:41 PM by Neutral Milk Dotel (Dan Lee) to baseball cards
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Decent jokes on worthless cards, posted fresh twice daily.
I chuckled.
Sunday, November 25, 2012
Talking Chop: The 420 Dollar Baseball Card Gamble
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posted on November 25, 2012 at 04:45 PM by Repoz to baseball cards, business, history
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I’ll just stick with my pile of relicky, stinkpit Hal Reniff cards. Thank you.
Read More...2012 Topps Five Star Baseball might just be the ultimate gamble. Right now, a box sells for around four-hundred and twenty dollars. That will get you a single pack with only six cards. What will the gamble get you? According to the Topps sell sheet for the product, this is what you will get:
1 Base Card
1 Autograph Card of an Active Player
1 Autograph Card of a Retired Player
1 Autographed Relic
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