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Article: Honus obsession: North Little Rock's John Rogers: the man behind the $1.62 million baseball card.
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- Arkansas Business
- Article date:
- February 9, 2009
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Even as a child, John Rogers was wheeling and dealing baseball cards.
And before he was a teen-ager, Rogers had paid taxes on the baseball cards he sold.
But there was one card that he obsessed about owning: a 1909, T206 Honus Wagner, considered by collectors to be the Holy Grail of baseball cards because only a handful exist in decent shape.
Last summer, Rogers' childhood dream came true. On Aug. 1 he faced-off against another bidder and won an auction to buy the card for $1.62 million.
The next morning, though, the 35-year-old North Little Rock businessman had a severe case of buyer's remorse because he busted his budget of $1.2 ...