And we still don' tknow who owns the dang thing?
As advertised, the guys at SCP Auctions held their Dodger Stadium press conference this morning to show off that 1909 Honus Wagner tobacco card that sold recently for the outrageous sum of $2.35 million.
As for the guy who shelled out for it? We don't know.
If Wayne Gretzky and Bruce McNall were once crazy enough to own up to it, why can't this guy? Or girl? Or circus freak?
The so-called "Mona Lisa" of baseball cards, a mere 2x2 1/2 inches, arrived with an armed guard and was put on display for all the photographers to snap pictures of it. But the owner decided he didn't pay for the publicity that goes with it.
"He said, 'Hey, let's let the world know and have a news conference, but I don't want my name out there,'" SCP president David Kohler said. "We have to respect that."
SCP bought a minority stake in the card.