SI article: All-Star Cafe Wagner Theft

[chriskim]

Are u guys talking about this incident?

http://www.t206museum.com/page/periodical_88.html

[Baseballcrazy62]

Yes

[ALBB]

So what happened to Mr MInt ?... did somebody reimburse him ?
He didnt suspect anything with the seller who seems pleased in accepting these incredible LOW buy prices ?

[BeanTown]

Originally Posted by ALBB

So what happened to Mr MInt ?... did somebody reimburse him ?
He didnt suspect anything with the seller who seems pleased in accepting these incredible LOW buy prices ?

He probably thought he over paid for it.

[thatkidfromjerrymaguire]

Looks like SI posted the link a couple hours ago. Could make a nice lunch break read:

https://www.si.com/sports-illustrate...tar-cafe-heist

[Sean]

I don't understand something in the article: The FBI didn't learn that the Wagner was missing until after they arrested Ramos, and he told them about it during questioning. But they only found him because Rosen had returned the stolen cards. So how could the FBI not know that the Wagner had been stolen and replaced with a fake? Unless Rosen only returned the Goudeys and MAGIE that the FBI was looking for but held on to the stolen Wagner.

I wish the story had gone into more detail about Rosen's cooperation with the FBI.

[chriskim]

Oh Boy!!!!

"Rosen would have known that a T206 Honus Wagner had sold for $222,500 just a few months earlier, at a Christie’s auction in Manhattan. That he was offering just $18,000—far below market value, even given that Sheen’s T206 wasn’t in mint -condition—suggests Rosen wasn’t buying Ramos’s story. (Rosen died of leukemia in 2017.) But Ramos accepted, and the conspirators divvied up the cash. According to court documents, Ramos kept $2,000; Gartland and Corden each took $8,000."