The part of the story that got me was that they also stole an uncut sheet of 25 Goudey Gum Company cards from 1934 that included a rare Nap Lajoie.
And then when the police got called about the theft:
"And with the NYPD on the way, the panicked thieves absconded, their spoils tucked into a backpack, to Gartland’s home, where—insert audible collector’s gasp—they cut up the sheet."
ARG!
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