From the ArcaMax Publishing, Religion & Spirituality Newsletter:
http://www.arcamax.com/news/religionandspirituality/s-574940-316072
PHILADELPHIA (UPI) -- A Pennsylvania man who donated a box of old
baseball cards to an inner-city church in Philadelphia learned later
they were worth about $35,000.
The Rev. Kevin Lawrence of St. Malachy Church gave David Smith, who
lives in suburban Berwyn, the chance to take the cards back. But Smith
declined, The Philadelphia Inquirer said Thursday.
Smith gave the cards, collected by his father, to be auctioned as part
of a baseball-themed fundraiser on Opening Day for the Philadelphia
Phillies. St. Malachy is trying to raise $350,000 to repair the pipe
organ.
The collection -- including 70 cards of members of the Baseball Hall
of Fame like Cy Young, Walter Johnson and Tris Speaker -- are to be
sold in a live auction during the All-Star break.
Smith, a retired university administrator who worked at Villanova and
LaSalle, got involved with St. Malachy by chance because his home
parish had twinned with the church. He discovered when he spotted a
clock at St. Malachy identical to one he had at home that his
grandfather had been awarded the clock as the head of the St. Malachy
Young Men's Benevolent Association from 1894 to 1930.