Theodore Roosevelt begins his first full term as president, having assumed the office after President William McKinley’s assassination in 1901. Ty Cobb makes his Major League debut, playing for the Detroit Tigers. In the World Series, the New York Giants defeat the Philadelphia Athletics in five games. World Heavyweight boxing champion James Jackson Jeffries retires undefeated. […]
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Reflections on a Collector
SON RECALLS CHARLIE RICARD’S PASSION FOR FAMILY, NAPOLEONIC MEDALS AND FELLOW COLLECTORS By Marc Charles Ricard Charlie Ricard’s collecting career started at age 8, when, after nearly severing his fingertip in a car door, his uncle gave him a 1922 silver dollar to ease the pain. Little did he know that this simple act would […]
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