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Bruce BabcockThere is an episode of "Deep Space Nine" in which a Willie Mays rookie card figures prominently. It was produced by DS9 creator and big time collector Mike Piller.
From an Amazon.com review:
Any television episode that has a 1951 Bowman Willie Mays rookie card as part of the plot is going to be my type of episode. In "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine," Episode 123, "In the Cards" (Story by Truly Clark and Scott Neal, Teleplay by Ronald De. Moore, Aired June 9, 1997), Jake (Cirroc Lofton) notices that the threat of the Dominion to the Alpha Quadrant is starting to stress out his father. So when he learns that Quark is auctioning off an antiquities collection that includes the aforementioned baseball card, he decides to buy it and cheer Captain Sisko up. Jake enlists Nog in his effort to buy the collection, but they are outbid by Dr. Giger (Brian Markinson). They try to buy the card directly from Giger, but he refuses. Then he finds out about Jake and Nog and offers to trade them the card for various pieces of equipment and medical supplies that the doctor needs for a machine that will provide eternal life by regenerating cells (the process is called "entertaining"). Jakes agrees, because he really wants that card (I can relate).