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...YORK--An 85-year-old Honus Wagner baseball card went for $222,500 at auction yesterday, while the ball Mark McGwire hit for his 50th home run earned a whopping $46,000 for the New York Mets fan who caught it last August...
...Honus Wagner card, with a portrait of the all-time great Pittsburgh Pirate shortstop, is one of the rarest of all baseball cards. An identical one was sold by Christie's in September of 1996, for $640,000--a record for any item of sports memorabilia at auction...
...South Boston topped with Hollywood-style letters spelling out WORLD SHAVING HEADQUARTERS. John Terry, the elderly, thick-glassed British engineer whose team came up with the design for the successor to the twin-track Sensor, cradles the prototype between his thumb and forefinger as if it were a Honus Wagner. Terry, who has two degrees in metallurgy, talks about his invention as if it were the fax machine...
From jail, the irrepressible faker can be expected to spend his leisure time discoursing to rapt fellow prisoners on his fabulous finagles, the reform policies of the Emperor Augustus and the spellbinding saga of the Honus Wagner baseball card with the $400,000 price tag. Betweentimes he can play Monopoly and catch up on his television. And when he gets out, he may be invited to lecture on collectibles at UCLA...
...most antique rarity of all may be an image of Pittsburgh Pirate Shortstop Honus Wagner, issued around 1910. About two dozen copies are known to exist. The king of baseball-card collectors, Larry Fritsch of Stevens Point, Wis., who claims to have more than 1 million cards stashed away, bought his Wagner for $1,300 in 1974. According to price guides, the same card would fetch $35,000 today...