Dmitri Young Had $5 Million Baseball Card Collection, is Selling it For Charity

The former Red, Tiger and National invested around $5 million of his $52.8 million career earnings in his baseball card collection. He had “perhaps the best collection of rookie cards in the world.”

Former major leaguer Dmitri Young is unlikely owner of huge rookie baseball card collection

The two-time All-Star became obsessed with baseball cards and now hopes to fund a baseball academy with his rare collection.

Helping kids in the cards for ex-Tiger Dmitri Young

During his 13-year career, Young spent approximately $5 million of his $53 million in career earnings on baseball cards — and the result was perhaps the best collection of rookie cards in the world. And now it's up for sale.

O'Brien Field nears its first decade in Downtown Peoria

Fans watch a Peoria Chiefs game at O'Brien Field in June of 2011. Ten years ago this Thursday, the first line-up cards were exchanged at 730 SW Jefferson Ave.

SUNDAY PUNCH / This baseball joke has no one laughing

That bizarre exchange of random statements Thursday by Bud Selig and Lew Wolff , concerning the Oakland A's - it sounded vaguely familiar. It made no sense, and my head was spinning, but it was funny. Then it hit me!...