Record amount paid for rare baseball card
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The "Mona Lisa" of baseball cards has sold for a record $2.35 million.
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That&#39;s more than any other baseball player except Babe Ruth and Hank Aaron. Pretty good company there. It was an accomplishment to be celebrated, and in San Francisco, they did.
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Sotheby&#39;s Holdings Inc. set six artist records at its auction last night of Impressionist and Modern artwork, as a Paul Gauguin painting fetched $39.
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A stainless steel cabinet containing 6,136 handcrafted and painted pills has set a record for the highest price paid at auction for a work by living artist, an auctioneer said.
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A complete set of 1914 Cracker Jack baseball cards featuring "Shoeless" Joe Jackson and Ty Cobb has been sold for a record &#36;800,000.
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It was no ordinary baseball, but the baseball that Barry Bonds hit over the left-field fence last month at SBC Park in San Francisco for his 700th career homer and promptly was put on the online auction block.
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Looking to pick up several thousand baseball cards for a few bucks? How about a 1995 red Ford Mustang, 30 pounds of scissors, dozens of laptop computers or thousands of Swiss Army knives -- all also for, potentially, a few bucks?
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Going, going, gone. The massive 46-ounce Louisville Slugger used by Babe Ruth to drill the first home run in Yankee Stadium history was sold for a record $1.26 million Thursday to an unidentified private collector.
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By GERALD M. CARBONE  Journal Staff Writer  The largest monetary prize in journalism -- $75,000 -- was awarded yesterday to a nine-member reporting team for The Record, a daily newspaper in Bergen County, New Jersey.
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By Gus G. Sentementes, The Baltimore Sun  Dec. 14--The lengthy list of pilfered items from storage rooms at Camden Yards reads like an inventory from a baseball memorabilia collector's garage:   A Melvin Mora bobblehead doll: $3. Six Orioles warm-up jackets: $360.
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Alex Rodriguez has signed a record 10-year deal with the New York Yankees worth $275 million, the team said on Thursday.
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The Boston Red Sox lineup card from Game 4 of the 2004 World Series brought a site-record bid of &#36;165,000 on MLB.com.
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Alex Rodriguez set another record for baseball's highest contract, finalizing his $275 million, 10-year agreement with the New York Yankees on Thursday.
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Baseball Baseball owners are 2-0 in their first arbitration hearings of the year. The Los Angeles Dodgers won their case against reliever Joe Beimel yesterday, setting his salary at $912,500 this year. Beimel asked for a raise from $425,000 to $1.25 million at Friday's hearing, but the arbitrators decided on the club's offer . . . The Tampa Bay Devil ...
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Barry Bonds' 715th home run ball,  which lifted the San Francisco Giants slugger past Babe Ruth on  all-time home run list, sold for $220,100 on Thursday in an  eBay Inc. auction.
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By Jane Bennett Clark Kiplinger's Personal Finance  You're desperate to find a baseball card featuring Oscar Dugey, who played for the Boston Braves in 1914. Your son is equally eager to get rid of last year's five-pound chemistry textbook.
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DALLAS - An art collector has paid about $2.3 million for a $1,000 U.S. bill printed in 1890, the auction house that brokered the transaction between two anonymous private collectors said Friday.