$1 Million Sports Card collection Found In Condemned Home

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Police were called to guard the condemned home of a reclusive man whose death led to the discovery of a valuable collection of vintage sports cards.

The collection, stored in 400 to 500 boxes in John F. Hessian's home in Boston's Roslindale section, included cards of such long-ago baseball stars as Ted Williams, Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays and Roberto Clemente.

Hessian also had football and hockey cards dating to the 1940s in a collection police estimate could be worth up to $1 million, according to a report published Thursday in the Boston Herald... Entire Story