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Posted By: drc

People often lament collectors auctioning off significant baseball items instead of donating them to a museum. As this and other museum stories illustrate, if you care about your rare collection it is often best to sell it to a private collector. If you sell it through someone like MastroNet, your collection will be published in a catalog for posterity.

Books-wise, the New York Public Library is the second or third largest library in the world (US Library of Congress is the largest). In their defense, it would be too much to expect the NYPL to hire a full time curator of baseball cards. An extra book stocker likely would be the piority.

Perhaps the grumpy employee Ted mentioned received a Ph.d. in Comparative Literature from Colombia and was now relegated to supervising baseball cards. The only thing lower in his mind was the NYU grad in charge of comic books.