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1933 BABE RUTH CARD SELLS FOR $4.2M NEWMAN COLLECTION TOPS $21.5M IN MEMORY LANE AUCTION

The extraordinary sports collection of Dr. Thomas Newman sold for more than $21.5 million in an auction at Memory Lane Inc. that ended July 10.

Newman, a Tampa, Fla. neurologist who passed away from complications of COVID in January, owned one of the most

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