Well, that didn't take long.
Less than 24 hours after The Baltimore Sun ran a story about the Babe Ruth Birthplace and Museum's year-long search for the owner of a rare and valuable baseball card, the owner has surfaced.
A man identifying himself as Glenn Davis of Bethany Beach, Del., contacted the museum ÃÂÃÂ and the newspaper -- to say he was the owner of the 1914 Baltimore News Babe Ruth rookie card.
It's one of the most valuable cards on the market, with an estimated value of $500,000. No more than 11 of the cards are believed to exist.
Although the museum has displayed the card for 12 years, officials there learned only recently that the value of the card had skyrocketed. That prompted their search for Davis, who called the museum early today and spoke to executive director Mike Gibbons.
"He told me if it were up to him, he'd leave the card with the museum," said Gibbons, who is certain the man he spoke to is the owner of the card. "But he was going to talk to his wife about it, and he said his wife might have other ideas.
"He promised he'd get back to us by the end of the week with his decision."