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The “greatest baseball card artifact in the history of the world”?

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by Jim Baker

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Is it just hyperbole when the seller proposes that this 1952 Topps baseball card box from the famed Mr. Mint find is “Possibly the greatest baseball card artifact in the history of the world!”...? And speaking of worlds, do we really live in one where a cardboard box is worth more than your car?

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