Sunday, November 7, 2010
Nuns get $220,000 from sale of rare baseball card
Only 50 to 60 T206 Honus Wagner cards are believed to exist
Years after his death, baseball legend Honus Wagner hit a home run for a group of nuns, who will use proceeds from the sale of his extremely rare baseball card to do charitable work.
Texas-based Heritage Auctions conducted the internet auction, which concluded Thursday night with a winning bid from Doug Walton, whose family owns seven stores in the Southeast specializing in sports cards and collectibles.
Read More:http://edition.cnn.com/2010/US/11/05/baseball.card.nuns/index.html
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