A #winning bid for an exceptionally rare baseball card once owned by Charlie Sheen could raise millions of dollars for charity.
An auction based in Colorado next month features the Honus Wagner card that was infamously stolen from the All Star Café in New York City’s Times Square in 1998.
The card is expected to sell for at least $3 million, according to Brian Drent, the president of the Mile High Card Company that’s hosting the auction.
“Despite its worn condition, it is valued in the millions because the legendary T206 series Wagner cards are considered ‘The Holy Grail’ of baseball card,” Drent said in a statement.
“Less than 80 are known to exist, and this one has an amazing backstory of celebrity ownership, theft, and recovery. It is known in the hobby as ‘the Charlie Sheen All Star Café Honus Wagner,’ and is a celebrity of its own.”
Sheen owned the card when it was swiped from the sprawling Manhattan restaurant more than two decades ago. The FBI later arrested three people in connection with its disappearance, and returned the relic to Sheen, who famously starred in the baseball movie “Major League.”
Sheen later sold the card in 2001, and its current owner, identified only as an Oklahoma business executive, purchased it years later for $400,000.
The current owner plans to donate all of the winnings from the auction, which runs from March 10-31, to the Boys & Girls Club in Oklahoma.
“He’s also giving all the proceeds from other sports cards and memorabilia he’s consigned to our auction, so the club could receive a total donation of $7 million or more,” Drent said.
