That puts all single-season records in jeopardy. This fall, the NFL season will expand from 16 games to 17. The Athletic (paywall) calls the market “white hot”: “Vintage and rare cards have emerged as a safe alternative asset for monied collectors and for wealthy people seeking to diversify beyond stocks, bonds, real estate, fine art and wines, and rare watches and cars.” In case you didn’t know, wealthy investors diversifying their portfolios have been pouring millions of dollars into the sports card market since the start of the pandemic, with prices raising dramatically. A different Wagner card of similar quality sold in 2015 for $1.32 million. The old record for the sale of one of these rare cards was $3.75 million, set in May. Today about 60 Wagner cards remain in existence from the T206 set released between 1909-11. So to pronounce it correctly, say it like the second half of Johannes: HAH-nuhs. Honus was an early-1900s Americanization of Johannes. Here’s a tip for sounding smart: The player on the card is Honus Wagner. Someone just paid $6.6 million for a baseball card. Utah is the fastest-growing and youngest state in the country, which The Associated Press attributed in part to influence of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The same argument has been made for at least half a century. Its thesis that a new petition to overturn the ban takes a novel position is inaccurate. The New York Times published an article about the beard ban at BYU.
The Latter-day Saint who is the lead singer for the band The Killers took time during the press tour for the band’s new album to look back on a 2012 television appearance in which he defended the church and faith in God in a spontaneous debate against the atheist Richard Dawkins. Learn more about why it was designed for youth and young adults. Take a virtual tour of the new Mesa Temple Visitors’ Center. 16)įirst Presidency urges vaccination, says vaccines are ‘safe and effective’ in battle with COVID-19 (Aug. Today, people living near the paved road known as Mormon Emigrant Trail, which in some areas takes a different course than the original trail blazed by the Mormon Battalion party, are under evacuation orders due to the Caldor Fire.īYU urges return to masks on campus (Aug. Of course, the first Latter-day Saint pioneers set out for the Salt Lake Valley in 1847. Frémont.įrémont’s narratives and maps about that trip and one the following year each included parts of modern-day Utah which “had a profound impact” on Latter-day Saint leaders in Nauvoo, Illinois, according to a BYU Religious Studies Center article by Alexander Baugh. Four years before the Mormon Battalion used the pass, the famous frontiersman had used it with the explorer John C. For years, it was known as “Mormon Carson Emigrant Trail,” because it passed through (Kit) Carson Pass. One other interesting note ties the trail to Latter-day Saint history. Others reported that up to 250 wagons would line up waiting to be lowered by block and tackle and rope down the steep slope called Devil’s Ladder.Some said the wagon trains stretched so long that a person could wait hours before a break wide enough to cross the trail.Two notes from journal entries shared by the website describe the traffic: More than 50,000 wagons and 200,000 forty-niners used the trail from 1849-1854, traveling with tens of thousands of head of cattle, horses and sheep, according to. The original trail choked with traffic every year during those 90 summer days. In fact, the paved Mormon Emigrant Trail still closes annually during the winter. The road was snow-free just 90 days a year because it passed through elevations as high as 9,550 feet. The trail became a summer thoroughfare for forty-niners rushing to the gold fields. With Sutter’s Mill complete but the snow too deep for passage through the Sierra Nevada, the Latter-day Saint group carved a new, 170-mile road out of the wilderness in 30 days. In the spring of 1848 they were building John Sutter’s sawmill and mining for gold in what today is Sacramento when Brigham Young called them home. The trail was blazed through the wilderness by members of the Mormon Battalion. #CaldorFire /KVPCMPOEaH- Tyler Day August 18, 2021 Wind picking up as fire pushed along Mormon Emigrant Trail.