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Honus Wagner card sells for record $2.8M 

A 1909 baseball card featuring Hall of Fame shortstop Honus Wagner was sold Thursday to a private collector for a record $2.8 million US. . . .

Cards were issued in packs of cigarettes by the American Tobacco Co., but Wagner's is coveted because he allegedly refused to let the firm use his image to promote smoking and its distribution was halted.

Wagner, nicknamed the Flying Dutchman, was a Hall of Fame shortstop from 1897-1917.

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