by A.J. Coltrane
I thought this one was fun — the nuns of the School Sisters of Notre Dame are auctioning a recently inherited Honus Wagner card:
The brother of a nun who died in 1999 left all his possessions to the order when he died earlier this year. The man’s lawyer told Muller he had a Honus Wagner card in a safe-deposit box.
When they opened the box, they found the card, with a typewritten note: “Although damaged, the value of this baseball card should increase exponentially throughout the 21st century!”
The card was unknown to the sports-memorabilia marketplace because the nuns’ benefactor had owned it since 1936…
…The auction ends Nov. 4, and the highest bid was $60,000 as of Wednesday morning.
… That whole “exponential increase” didn’t work out like everyone would have liked, I don’t think.
In conclusion —
Wagner was known as “The Flying Dutchman.” His card is now owned by nuns.
Therefore:
FlatbreadGarden 
Postscript:
The card sold for $262,000. The nuns received $220,000 of that after brokerage fees.
Story link is in the sig.
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