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Baseball Holy Card – Honus Wagner
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Wagner is now becoming a convent household name. A baseball card featuring Mr. Wagner was donated to the School Sisters of Notre Dame, a Catholic religious community based in Baltimore. The tattered 1.25 x 2.5″ piece of cardboard is expected to catch up to $200,000 at auction!
Wagner himself was a great treasure, and along with the SSNDs, baseball fans will remember him well into the future.
Wagner, nicknamed “The Flying Dutchman,” played for 21 seasons, 18 of them with the Pittsburgh Pirates. He compiled a .328 career batting average and was one of the five original inductees into baseball’s Hall of Fame.
The baseball card is also quite a treasure. It is a century old, having been produced sometime between 1909 and 1911. How did the nuns obtain the card?
The brother of a nun who died in 1999 left all his possessions to the order when he died earlier this year. The man’s lawyer told Muller he had a Honus Wagner card in a safe-deposit box.
When they opened the box, they found the card, with a typewritten note: “Although damaged, the value of this baseball card should increase exponentially throughout the 21st century!”
With baseball fans and sports news bureaus abuzz with the World Series and the Texas Rangers and San Francisco Giants, this is a good time to auction the card which is already up for bidding. The auction ends November 4.
What will the SSND sisters do with the money they receive from the auction?
“The money that we receive from this card will be used for the many School Sisters of Notre Dame who are around the world, who need support for their ministries for the poor.” (Sister Virginia Muller, SSND)
More info:
- Holy card! Nuns auctioning rare Honus Wagner (Associated Press, October 28, 2010) — source of quotes in this blog post
- Heritage Auction Galleries, the proud auctioneers of the card
- School Sisters of Notre Dame, Atlantic-Midwest province
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This is why we pray for our benefactors *every* day! Who would think that a little piece of wrinkled cardboard could provide the funds for helping so many people?
(And isn’t his hairstyle a hoot and a half!)
I do dig the do!
Why do all the left over sports cards in my life – left behind by sons, nephews, husband, etc. – turn out to have no value at all?
The auction has ended and the card sold for $262,000! Congrats, Sisters!