Found March 12, 2009 on The Daily Del Franco: Yardbarker Blogger Network
Memorabilia king Bill Mastro was one of the central figures in the book "The Card," the book detailing the mystery surrounding the T206 Honus Wagner, the Mona Lisa of baseball cards. Some believe it was Mastro who cut the card, giving it its funny shape. Can you imagine? At any rate, here's one more added to the unemployment rolls. Perhaps he can get the cell next to Madoff's.Bill Mastro folds sports memorabilia's largest auction house amid FBI probeBY Michael O'Keeffe DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER Mastro auctions chairman Bill Mastro boasted in a Jan. 21 article in the Chicago Daily Herald that his auction house would not be damaged by the recession because it caters to high-end clients."When we do our big auctions we're typically dealing with well-heeled guys, and this is what gives them pleasure," Mastro said. "If anything, I think guys are getting more choosy and discriminating about what they buy and how they buy it. But at the end of t...
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