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Rare card experience, legends dinner up for auction
- Updated: December 6, 2016
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — When the D-backs were trying to decide what unique experiences they could offer for the Play Ball Charity Auction, the idea of allowing someone to hold the rarest and most expensive baseball card in history — the Honus Wagner T-206 — was suggested to managing general partner Ken Kendrick.
The Wagner card is part of Kendrick’s collection, which was recently on display at the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
“No,” Kendrick said when he was asked. “Let’s make it even better than that.”
So in addition to having his or her photo taken holding the card, the winner will also receive two premium seats to either a D-backs Spring Training or regular-season game, a round of golf at Talking Stick Resort, the opportunity to watch batting practice on the field and two nights in a Phoenix hotel.
That package is one of the three the D-backs …
