Earlier this week, Topps celebrated the launch of 2013 Topps Baseball Series 1 and the start of Spring Training with the World’s Largest Baseball Card. Near the Detroit Tigers’ spring training home in Lakeland, Florida, Topps unveiled the massive, 5000-plus square foot image of Prince Fielder spanning a large section of a youth baseball [...]
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Posted by tgbrown on December 2nd, 2012
From Michael O’Keefe, New York Daily News: Bill Mastro, the one-time king of sports collectibles who was indicted on a count of fraud in July — and accused of trimming the world’s most expensive baseball card — has agreed to plead guilty to fraud. Mastro, the founder of Mastro Auctions and once the most important [...]
Sunday Fun-Day Fun Facts – 28/10/2012
Posted by tgbrown on October 28th, 2012
“Sanders to auction football card to help Houston couple” from the Windsor Star Barry Sanders knows that his trading cards are bought and sold every day. When the Hall of Fame running back learned that a Houston couple desperate to have a baby was auctioning off one of his most rare cards to fund one [...]
Sunday Fun-Day Fun Facts – 09/09/2012
Posted by tgbrown on September 9th, 2012
From the Portland Press Herald – August 30, 2012 BIDDEFORD, Maine (AP) — A rare 1888 card of Hall of Fame baseball player Michael ‘‘King’’ Kelly has been sold at auction for $62,000. The buyer was an anonymous collector who made his bid by telephone during the Wednesday night auction in Biddeford. The item was [...]
Sunday Fun-Day Fun Facts – 29/07/2012
Posted by tgbrown on July 29th, 2012
From Bloomberg.com William Mastro, a sports memorabilia auctioneer, was indicted by a U.S. grand jury for defrauding bidders through actions that included hiding alterations to a rare Honus Wagner baseball card. Chicago’s Acting U.S. Attorney Gary Shapiro announced charges today against the former Mastro Auctions principal and three other men. The portrait of Wagner, who [...]
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