Well, his baseball card anyway.
A 1909 Honus Wagner baseball card was sold for $1.62 million at a memorabilia auction in Chicago, a sports auction company said Saturday. …
John Rogers, 35, of North Little Rock, Ark., said his winning bid for the T206 Wagner card is the realization of a decades-long dream.
“I call this the holy grail of baseball cards,” Rogers said in a phone interview. “I’ve looked at a number of other specimens, sat in a few other Wagner auctions. But this is the one that makes collecting worth while.”
Anyone who’s ever collected baseball cards knows how cool this is. If you’ve never collected baseball cards, and you’re wondering why someone would spend $1.62 million on one, just know that a Honus Wagner card is something like the Mona Lisa of baseball card collecting. Congratulations, John. That’s quite an acquisition.
