Dead Collector Fails to Take Any of It with Him

Barry Halper, famed collector of sports memorabilia, is dead at 66.

During his lifetime, Mr. Halper amassed over 80,000 pieces of sports memorabilia, religiously inspecting at least ten different items from his collection each day in order to be assured of seeing everything at least once every 22 years.

The biggest disappointment in his life was having acquired only 80,000 items instead of the 90,000 he had hoped to amass.

Although Mr. Halper had known for many years that he couldn’t take it all with him, he never lost hope until the last moment that he might be able to just take the jersey Lou Gehrig wore at his farewell speech and the Honus Wagner card.