Wagner baseball card with Marin connection sells for over $5 million

By Steve Hermanos, IJ correspondent

This past weekend, a piece of cardboard approximately two-and-a-half inches by one-and-a-half inches sold for $5.124 million by Goldin Auctions. It was a Honus Wagner baseball card from the T206 set, previously owned by Dennis and Douglas Shields, brothers with Los Angeles and Marin connections.

Dennis lives in Los Angeles and Douglas lives in Inverness. Their nephew, Mathew Salter, lives in Ross.

The card, encapsulated by the PSA grading service with a grade of 1 (out of 10)...