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Garage sales are supposed to be about clearing clutter and making a few bucks in the process.
But, as Craig Nelson says, sometimes it’s just “so we can swap stuff from my closet for stuff from your closet.”
That’s exactly how it worked out for Nelson about 35 years ago when he held a garage sale at the home he then owned in San Carlos. And it is when Nelson came to own one of his most prized possessions an oil painting of Tony Gwynn.
“I had collected a fairly large stash of memorabilia, including game uniforms, bats and several hundred thousand baseball cards,” Nelson said. “Picking through the old lamps and miscellaneous junk, a neighbor said, ‘I see you are a collector would you be interested in a Tony Gwynn painting?’ ”