Colvin, of Port Townsend, Wash.What the Colvins found is considered Honus Wagner's rookie card, distributed between 1897 and 1899. Theirs is only the third one known to exist.This month, the card will go up for bid from the Lelands auction house, billed on its website as "Honus Wagner...
Honus Wagner had a batting average of .335 with 81 hits, 2 homers, 39 RBIs and 38 runs scored in 62 games in his rookie season in 1897.
Wagner’s card isn’t the only Holy Grail cardboard offered in this event: Here, too, are seven 1952 Topps Mickey Mantles –among them one graded PSA NM-MT 8 and another autographed by The Mick. The auction also includes a 1951 Bowman Mickey Mantle Rookie graded PSA NM-MT 8,...
The 1909 Honus Wagner baseball card, therefore, honors a great player. But there’s a lot more to this baseball card story than Wagner’s impressive career achievements. The Wagner card — sometimes called the “Mona Lisa” or “Holy Grail” of baseball trading cards — was originally publish...