Day: June 28, 2026

That famous auction was conducted by Sotheby’s in New York City on March 22 and 23, 1991, and was formally known as “The Copeland Collection of Important Baseball Cards and Sports Memorabilia”. The “Copeland” of the title was James Copeland, who had become rich through a chain of sporting goods stores (Copeland Sports) that he had founded in 1971 with his brother Tom. In the mid-1980s, Jim …