[Kimmers]

Wow....what a neat find and I bet the money will actually be used for good....nice story...thanks for the post

[ShadowAce]

[Vigilanteman]

Honus Wagner has been dead and buried for more than half a century but still has a sizeable fan club in the Pittsburgh area. It was roughly 100 years ago that a tobacco company printed these cards for distribution as a sales promotion. Honus refused to sign-off on it and accept their money even though professional ballplayers were poorly paid in his day. His reasoning was that smoking was a bad habit, especially for kids to take up, and he wanted no part of encouraging it.

Earlier this year, I attended a personal appearance for Vernon Law, Cy Young Award winner of the 1960 Pirates. Even back in his day (more than a half century after Honus), he told us that just about every MLB player had an off-season job to make ends meet. He did deliveries for a dairy. ElRoy Face was a carpenter and everyone else on that great team had similar working class jobs. No wonder the fans related so much better to them back in the day!

[ClearCase_guy]

A previous owner has written his name on the back of the card -- some "Button Gwinnett" guy.

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[Joe 6-pack]

If I’m not mistaken, this is from the time when baseball cards were sold in cigarette packs. The government will probably try to gather some type of sin-tax on the auction revenues.

[deks]

Current bid is $180,000 (with buyer’s premium $215,100)

http://sports.ha.com/common/view_item.php?Sale_No=7028&Lot_No=80079

[AngelesCrestHighway]

"Nuns do not collect baseball cards!".....

[steveo]

I really want to buy this card, it’ll be a great addition to the shop but I gotta call my buddy first and have him take a look at it.

[bmwcyle]

I didn’t know nuns were big collectors.