Iconic Mint-Condition 1933 Babe Ruth Baseball Is Expected To Shatter Auction Records
Thursday, May 20, 2021
In addition to the rare 1933 Babe Ruth card, Memory Lane Inc. says the sale will feature more than 1,000 items including some of the finest known examples of other Hall of Fame players including Ty Cobb, Lou Gehrig, Honus Wagner, Ted Williams and Cy Young, as well as World Series program books dating back to 1903.
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As a 10-year-old in the 1950s Thomas Newman did what other boys his age did: he collected baseball cards.
Over a couple of years Newman assembled a treasured collection that was not equally prized by his mother, who thought of the cards as garbage and tossed them out. The loss inspired a decades-long passion to recoup what he d lost. And then some.
Hitting it out of the park: Baseball card legacy could smash records
By Jill Serjeant
Reuters
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - When Florida physician Thomas Newman died of COVID-19, he left his family a huge legacy - a collection of sports cards worth some $20 million, including a Babe Ruth card that could set a new world record.
It was love, not money, that drove Newman when he started his collection some 40 years ago, traveling the United States to trade at conventions and storing his cards in a safe at his Tampa home. He loved his paper babies, said his widow Nancy Newman. He got such joy out of it.