He wouldn't have asked for it, he wouldn't have brought attention to himself. "He would want it to be an investment for the family's future," Nancy Newman said of the decision to part with the memorabilia. Thomas Newman and his family had a rough idea about the value of his collection but prices have soared over the past few years, particularly during the coronavirus pandemic. This uncertainty is accentuated in Bastardo’s case by the fact that he was barely on the radar last year and spent most of his time as a roofing contractor Baseball America only rated him the Phillies’ 11th best prospect, which just goes to prove that A) Baseball America isn’t always accurate in its ratings, and B) no one else is. "I remember it was hard getting my dad away so I could even just have some lunch or something," said Stewart Newman. He started again in the 1980s, visiting sports collectors conventions around the nation, often with his son.
Newman, who worked as a neurologist, began collecting as a boy but his mom threw out his cards when he left for college. "There are some amazing one-of-a-kind pieces that we, as a company who have been doing this over 20 years, have never seen before," said JP Cohen, president of Memory Lane Auctions in Tustin. Other highlights are a 1916 Babe Ruth Sporting News rookie card, and a near-perfect 1952 Mickey Mantle rookie card that is expected to sell for about $1 million. Newman acquired the Babe Ruth card some 15-20 years ago from a dealer at a fraction of its current worth and turned down hundreds of offers to sell it over the years, his son said.
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