Quote Originally Posted by amat View Post
I decided long ago that if I ever got really really rich, I would buy a Honus Wager t 209. Wayne Gretzky bought one for 500K. I believe there are only 8 or 9 in existence. I think the old story is that they were tobacco cards and cards used to come with tobacco, Honus Wagner strongly condemned the use of tobacco so he ordered a halt to it all. He got the ones that had been printed and ripped them all in half. A few got out though and a few stuck around and those are the ones out there today in Cooperstown and in the homes of the insanely rich.

Of course I'm not sure that story is true but that's how I've always heard it. I love baseball, I really do a lot of the reason is because of that history. Of course I know next to nothing about the history of baseball with the exception of the Giants who I studied up and down after getting the media guide from a friend of ours.

I'm rambling here.
Gretzky owned it years ago but he's sold it since...

About 2 weeks ago 1 was auctioned try running a google search on it...