Troy Kinunen is a lifelong baseball fan, but as a young collector, he couldn’t afford cards and collectibles from heroes like Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Ty Cobb and Mickey Mantle.
So he turned to another sports legend — Muhammad Ali.
In 1988, Kinunen bought his first Ali piece — a poster from his 1966 fight at the Houston Astrodome — because it was one of the few items he could afford.
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