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Posted By: Mark Lutz

If given a choice between (1) seeing a Wagner bat ground up in little pieces and distributed to thousands of baseball card collectors or (2) knowing that such a bat is in the hands of a rich collector, I would prefer that the bat stay intact and go to the private collection. I suppose that there are some people who are so resentful that they would not care about the destruction of a rare and beautiful artifact as long as a rich guy didn't get to enjoy it, but I find it hard to believe that many baseball card collectors harbor such envious thoughts.



As for collecting relics of the saints (their finger bones, etc), that's ok with me since the bodies of the saints in question would have already begun falling apart.



Mark

Society for the Preservation of Baseball Bats