By Roman | May 28, 2010 - 12:18 pm - Posted in Collectibles
In the early days of baseball card collectors had to buy cigarettes such as Sweet Caporal and Piedmont to get their cards as tobacco companies were the only producers of baseball cards.
Honus Wagner was a great ball player and very much against smoking so when the 1909 set came out he used his clout to have his card pulled from the set.
Luckily Honus was a bit late and a few of the cards managed to make it into collectors hands and some 60 or so are known to exist today.
The world’s most expensive baseball card is the T206 Honus Wagner and on September 6, 2007 one of them sold to an anonymous collector for $2.8 million.



