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Record $12.6 million price for 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle represents the eternal hope of collecting

Record $12.6 million price for 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle represents the eternal hope of collecting

I don’t know what it’s like to hold a 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle worth millions of dollars. Never will, and that’s OK. You probably don’t, either. The closest I’ve ever come is holding a 1952 Topps Willie Mays card that a friend had passed down from her father, and the corners on that card, well, let’s just say it was a well-loved baseball card in the 1950s.

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Record $12.6 million price for 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle represents the eternal hope of collecting

Record $12.6 million price for 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle represents the eternal hope of collecting

I don’t know what it’s like to hold a 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle worth millions of dollars. Never will, and that’s OK. You probably don’t, either. The closest I’ve ever come is holding a 1952 Topps Willie Mays card that a friend had passed down from her father, and the corners on that card, well, let’s just say it was a well-loved baseball card in the 1950s.

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Fraudster behind complicated Super Bowl ring grift that roped in Tom Brady gets three years in prison

Fraudster behind complicated Super Bowl ring grift that roped in Tom Brady gets three years in prison

Scott Spina of Roseland, New Jersey might have worked harder on this Tom Brady Super Bowl ring scam than Brady did for any individual ring. The professional fraudster, who previously was sentenced to 35 months in a federal prison for defrauding customers and stealing their credit card information via a boutique sneaker shop “opened” with rapper Fat Joe, was sentenced Monday to three years in prison for selling fraudulent Brady Super Bowl rings, one of which sold for over $337,000 at auction.

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Fraudster behind complicated Super Bowl ring grift that roped in Tom Brady gets three years in prison

Fraudster behind complicated Super Bowl ring grift that roped in Tom Brady gets three years in prison

Scott Spina of Roseland, New Jersey might have worked harder on this Tom Brady Super Bowl ring scam than Brady did for any individual ring. The professional fraudster, who previously was sentenced to 35 months in a federal prison for defrauding customers and stealing their credit card information via a boutique sneaker shop “opened” with rapper Fat Joe, was sentenced Monday to three years in prison for selling fraudulent Brady Super Bowl rings, one of which sold for over $337,000 at auction.

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Fraudster behind complicated Super Bowl ring grift that roped in Tom Brady gets three years in prison

Fraudster behind complicated Super Bowl ring grift that roped in Tom Brady gets three years in prison

Scott Spina of Roseland, New Jersey might have worked harder on this Tom Brady Super Bowl ring scam than Brady did for any individual ring. The professional fraudster, who previously was sentenced to 35 months in a federal prison for defrauding customers and stealing their credit card information via a boutique sneaker shop “opened” with rapper Fat Joe, was sentenced Monday to three years in prison for selling fraudulent Brady Super Bowl rings, one of which sold for over $337,000 at auction.

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