Carroll County Times Thursday, October 28, 2010, Page A7

LOCAL/STATE

Nuns to auction ACLU sues over slur

off baseball card
Proceeds from Honus Wagner
memorabilia to go to ministries
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BALTIMORE — Sister
Virginia Muller had never
heard of shortstop Honus
Wagner.
But she quickly learned
the baseball great is a
revered figure among col-
lectors, and the most
sought- after baseball card
in history. And thanks to an
unexpected donation, one
of the century- old cards
belongs to Muller and her
order, the Baltimore- based
School Sisters of Notre
Dame.
The Roman Catholic
nuns are auctioning off the
card, which despite its poor
condition is expected to
fetch between $150,000 and
$200,000. The proceeds
will go to their ministries
in 35 countries around the
world.
The card is part of the
T206 series, produced be-
tween 1909 and 1911. About
60 Wagner cards are
known to exist.
A near- mint- condition
T206 Wagner card sold in
2007 for $2.8 million, the
highest price ever for a
baseball card. Muller re-
mains aghast that the 1¼-
inch- by-2½- inch piece of
cardboard could sell for
even a fraction of that.
“It just boggles your
mind,” Muller told The As-
sociated Press. “I can’t re-
member a time when we
have received anything like
this.”
The brother of a nun who
died in 1999 left all his pos-
sessions to the order when
he died earlier this year.
The man’s lawyer told
Muller he had a Honus
Wagner card in a safe- de-
posit box.
When they opened the
box, they found the card,
with a typewritten note:
“Although damaged, the
value of this baseball card
should increase exponen-
tially throughout the 21st
century!”
The card was unknown
to the sports- memorabilia
marketplace because the
nuns’ benefactor had
owned it since 1936. It has a
big crease in the upper
right- hand corner, and
three of the white borders
have been cut off.
It has also been lami-
nated. But even in poor
condition, a T206 Wagner
card is prized by collectors,
said Chris Ivy, director of
sports auctions at Heritage
Police: State trooper used derogatory word
ASSOCIATED PRESS The lawsuit, filed in Bal- day that the agency released
timore County Circuit everything it was permitted
BALTIMORE — The
Maryland State Police
Court, attempts to compel by law to disclose and de-
state police to release the tailed its reasons for deny-
should release the files
detailing its investigation
information. ing Dashiell’s public
State police spokesman information requests in two
into a trooper who ut- Greg Shipley said Wednes-
tered a racial slur in a
letters to her attorneys.
voicemail message for a
black woman and disclose
how the trooper was dis-
ciplined, the ACLU of
Maryland argued in a
AP PHOTO lawsuit filed Wednesday.
A rare century- old T206 Last November, state
Honus Wagner baseball police Sgt. John Maiello
card is shown. It is the left Teleta Dashiell a
most sought-after base- voicemail and apparently
ball card in history. thought he had hung up
when he had not.
He can be heard using
Auction Galleries in Dallas,
which is auctioning the the N-word in conversa-
card. tion with another trooper.
“The T206 set is known Dashiell, of Princess
as ‘The Monster’ among Anne, filed a complaint,
paid political advertisem en t
collectors. It’s just really and state police told her
that the incident was in-
tough to complete the en-
tire set,” Ivy said. The vestigated and that her
complaint had been sus-
Wagner card is “one of
those that’s always sought- tained. The agency also
indicated that Maiello,
after, always desirable, and
who remains a state
there’s not a big population
trooper, had been disci-
of them. Even in a lower
plined, but it did not say
grade, they do have quite a
bit of demand and com-
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Dashiell and the Ameri-
mand a strong price.” can Civil Liberties Union
Wagner, nicknamed “The of Maryland filed public
Flying Dutchman,” played information requests for
for 21 seasons, 18 of them details on how the com-
with the Pittsburgh Pirates. plaint was handled and
He compiled a .328 career how Maiello was disci-
batting average and was plined, but the agency re-
one of the five original in- fused, saying it was a
ductees into baseball’s Hall confidential personnel
of Fame. matter.

Theft the Community Center,

From Page A1
She and the other volun-
teers who run the com-
puter lab three nights a
week at the Community
Center feel uneasy, she
said, believing the person
who stole the laptops must
have known how they were
stored and most likely was
a user of the computer lab.
The Bridges volunteers
are no longer storing the
she said, but are passing
them back and forth be-
tween the volunteers,
which is difficult and time
consuming.
“I don’t want [the theft]
to interfere with a program
that has been very suc-
cessful,” Mathias said of
the lab, which recently
celebrated its one-year an-
niversary.
Another frustrating
point in the theft is that
these laptops would be
ever stole them, Mathias
said.
Because of the security
programs installed on
them by the public library,
users cannot save any in-
formation on the hard
drive and they are unable
to visit websites that don’t
comply with the library’s
guidelines.
Mathias said Bridges
does not have enough
funding to purchase new
laptops, so they are hoping
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