Sports Collectors Digest

A Divine Collection

Father John Ubel was ready to throw away his childhood sports card collection, mostly baseball cards, particularly of his beloved Minnesota Twins.

He was literally at the garbage dumpster that day in 2003, ready to part with his relics from the early-1970s.

Instead, he put the box of cards back in his car.

“I changed my mind at the very last second and kept them,” said Ubel, who at the time was switching assignments and paring down his inventory of, well, everything. For instance, he parted with 500 books, helping a group of religious sisters who were

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