Sports Collectors Digest

Baseball Hall of Fame has more cards than players

It’s a baseball card collection unlike any other. It features four of the most iconic cards of all time: 1909-11 T206 Honus Wagner and Eddie Plank, 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle, and 1933 Goudey Napoleon Lajoie.

There are just a few other cards in the collection – oh, 200,000 more, in fact. No this is not a private collection, it’s quite public. It is owned by the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. Anyone visiting Cooperstown, N.Y., can check out a number of these top-of-the-line cards.

“We’re thrilled to have as an amazing collection as we have,” said John Odell, who is the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum Curator of History & Research. “The

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