The Sun shines for paper investor

The Baltimore Sun

Ray Datema of Vermont spent the weekend on Main Street, hawking copies of the Sept. 7, 1995, edition of The Sun.

Of course, that's the day after Cal Ripken Jr. played in his 2,131st consecutive game and broke Lou Gehrig's supposedly unbreakable record. It's also the day Datema and partner John Kaye ordered 3,000 copies of the paper for resale purposes.

"Most of the guys [in the Hall of Fame] are regional, but Cal is a hero for everyone," Datema said.

He has been selling the papers, some of them slightly yellowed, for $10 apiece at memorabilia shows and over the Internet and said he has only about 300 left. That would represent a massive profit over the $3,000 it cost to buy the papers and have them shipped to him.

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