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Bush Center to Display Rare Honus Wagner Baseball Card

One of the rarest, most valuable specimens of sports memorabilia is to go on display at the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum at Southern Methodist University.

Honus Wagner was one of the first five players chosen for the National Baseball Hall of Fame in recognition of his long, stellar career as shortstop for the National League's Louisville Colonels and Pittsburgh Pirates.

The T206 Honus Wagner baseball card is regarded by collectors as the "Holy Grail" of baseball cards. An example recently sold at auction for $1.3 million. The cards were offered between 1909 to 1911 as premiums on cigarette packs until Wagner objected.

The presidential library will also offer baseball-related documents and artifacts from its archives as well as from other presidential libraries.

A Bush Center statement says the card will be displayed through Aug. 17 as part of its exhibit "Baseball: America's Presidents, America's Pastime."

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