The Met Is Showcasing One of the Largest Collections of Baseball Cards Ever Assembled

Jefferson R. Burdick was an electrician from Upstate New York who amassed over 30,000 baseball cards during his life. He has been hailed in the past as the "father of card collecting" and even had cards with an estimated value in the millions. Instead of taking his collection to market, he generously donated the lot to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, starting in 1940. The Met will showcase his life work in an exhibition, entitled "Baseball Cards from the Collection of Jefferson R. Burdick." As t...