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In early January, the most expensive baseball card ever sold went on a 3,700-mile journey to meet its new owner, ensconced in a comically large zip-tied tarpaulin sack that could have doubled as a prop for a mall Santa.
The card departed from a broker’s bank vault in Portland, under the watch of private security, and boarded a nine-hour flight to San Juan.