Somewhere in between the divorce decree for Joe DiMaggio and Maryln Monroe and a rare 1911 Honus Wagner baseball card, Dr. Nicholas Depace thinks he has struck sports memorabilia gold.
Depace feels he has captured a key slice of Americana, with thousands of items in his collection — from the goal post of a 1940s Army-Navy game to the trunks Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier wore in the 1971 "Fight of the Century" in Madison Square Garden.
After collecting memorabilia for years and storing heaps of it in his home in Haddonfield, the cardiologist who counted "Smokin" Joe Frazier as a patient and friend, opened his 4,000-square-foot Depace Sports Museum in a former bank building in neighboring Collingswood in 2015. The building still included the vault which helped safeguard his collection.
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Depace feels he has captured a key slice of Americana, with thousands of items in his collection — from the goal post of a 1940s Army-Navy game to the trunks Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier wore in the 1971 "Fight of the Century" in Madison Square Garden.
After collecting memorabilia for years and storing heaps of it in his home in Haddonfield, the cardiologist who counted "Smokin" Joe Frazier as a patient and friend, opened his 4,000-square-foot Depace Sports Museum in a former bank building in neighboring Collingswood in 2015. The building still included the vault which helped safeguard his collection.
Read more:
It's Outta Here!