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While he’s no longer rocking pinstripes on a regular basis, it’s hard to think about the New York Yankees and not turn your attention to the great Derek Jeter. Even after his retirement from Major League Baseball in 2014, the captain of all captains continues to remain a permanent fixture in the city with which he spent his entire career. And really, that shouldn’t be a surprise. That’s usually what happens when you’re an all-time great shortstop. Throughout his incredible career, Jeter showed himself to be one of the greatest shortstops to ever step on a diamond. While there have...

The National Sports Collector’s Show, by far, the biggest show of the year, landed in Baltimore again this year. It started on Thursday, and it goes through today. If you haven’t been before, it is truly a site to behold whether you are a collector, or just a fan of the game. There are some amazing baseball cards, as well as some amazing artifacts from the greatest game of all time.

The baseball card is in horrible shape -- it has a big crease in the upper right-hand corner, three of its white borders have been cut off and it has been laminated. But collectors still are likely to go nuts over a rare century-old Honus Wagner baseball card from the T206 series, recently found in a safe deposit box of a man who left all his possessions to a group of nuns, the Baltimore-based School Sisters of Notre Dame. The sisters have decided to auction off the card, which is expected to sell for $150,000 to $200,000, with the proceeds...

The "Holy Grail of baseball cards," the famous 1909 Honus Wagner tobacco card once owned by hockey great Wayne Gretzky, has sold for a record-setting $2,350,000, the seller of the card said Monday. The anonymous buyer has only been identified as a Southern California collector. SCP Auctions Inc., a company that holds sports memorabilia auctions, said it bought a small share of the card. It is scheduled to be shown at a news conference at Dodger Stadium Tuesday. There are about 60 of the tobacco cards in existence featuring the Pittsburgh Pirates shortstop, one of the first five players to...