Haddonfield Doctor Keeps Sports Memories Alive
Nicholas DePace plans to open a museum in Collingswood for his world-class sports memorabilia collection, which includes a rare 1910 Honus Wagner baseball card.
It was dubbed the Christmas Miracle when a Haddonfield cardiologist swooped in at the eleventh hour last year to buy a rare baseball card from an order of Baltimore nuns days before Christmas. But the 1910 Honus Wagner baseball card wasn’t the first item in the collection of Dr. Nicholas DePace. In fact, DePace’s collection of sports and entertainment memorabilia was called "one of the great collections in the country, probably the world," in a Philadelphia Inquirer story in December. But DePace wasn’t done with the $210,000 purchase of the Wagner lithograph card, described as the “Holy Grail” of baseball cards. “We just bought the sailor suit Frank Sinatra wore in 'Anchors Away,'" DePace said last week. “We also bought the raccoon coat …
