Apparently collectors aren’t the only people who value baseball cards, thieves do too. In Orange Park, Florida a man was arrested on suspicion of stealing baseball cards worth $100,000. Police found the cards stolen from Dan’s Sports Cards in the Suspect’s apartment. Police had pulled him over before the burglary occurred and noticed that he was acting suspiciously, later when they heard about the incident they tracked down his apartment using a vehicle description and found the cards.It is so lucky that those cops remembered the suspicious man and then followed it through. One of the cards stolen was a Mickey Mantle card worth $30,000. Cards like that are hard to replace to say the least, I’m sure the owner of Dan’s Sports Cards is happy that he got it back.
Fortunately for all of us fans, sports card memorabilia theft is pretty rare. It isn’t a wise move to steal something that is so easily traceable. Any card that is worth money is rare enough to be noticed when it sells, and most valuable cards are PSA rated which makes them even more traceable due to serial numbers. If you have a valuable card be like iTaggit user Been_around_the_world and get it graded, not only will it preserve it’s value, but it will make it impossible for thieves to easily sell.
By Jamie.
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