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• Honus Wagner cards sells for record $2.8 million 

The most famous baseball card in the world - the 1909 T206 Honus Wagner that has long been shadowed by controversy and was once owned by NHL superstar Wayne Gretzky - has been sold again to yet another anonymous collector, this time for a record $2.8 million, according to the auction house that says it sold the card. . . .

Most collectors recognize the T206 Wagner as the most desirable card in their hobby. It is rare card - but by no means the hobby's rarest - because the American Tobacco Company, the cigarette manufacturer that issued the T206 series, abruptly stopped production after Wagner refused to give permission to use his likeness. Some card historians claim the Pittsburgh Pirates shortstop, still considered one of the game's greatest players, did not want to promote tobacco use to his young fans. Others say he was just another jock holding out for more money. Either way, an unknown number of T206 Wagners had already been printed and circulated in tobacco packs, and approximately 50 or 60 cards are still in circulation.

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