Sisters of Notre Dame, who catapulted attention when they put a rare Honus Wagner base ball card up for auction to support their charitable mission, The Problem was, The high bidder never paid.On Monday, the Baltimore based order of Roman Catholic nuns got their $220,000, the original bid but have a different collector,Dr. Nicholas DePace, a Philadelphia cardiologist, wired them the money and owns the card.
He’s been collecting sports memorabilia for 30 years and he’s a longtime client of Dallas based Heritage Auctions. A staff member at the auction house reached out to him in early December after the winning bidder missed a 30 day deadline to purchase the card, and DePace agreed immediately to buy it.”God bless him,” said Sister Virginia Muller, the former treasurer of the School Sisters of Notre Dame, who was entrusted with the card.
The Wagner card produced as part of the T206 series between 1909 and 1911, is the most sought after baseball card in history. About 60 are known to exist and one in near perfect condition sold in 2007 for $2.8 million, the highest price ever for a baseball card.The School Sisters of Notre Dame inherited their card from the brother of a deceased nun after he died earlier this year. It had been in the man’s possession since 1936 and was unknown to the sports memorabilia marketplace. It’s in poor condition, but collectors prize any Wagner card.
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