Super fan: New Jersey cardiologist owns $40 million of sports memorabilia

Nicholas DePace, MD, a cardiologist from New Jersey, has sports memorabilia worth an estimated $10 million to $12 million displayed in a building near his home, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports.

That total doesn’t even include some of DePace’s most expensive pieces of memorabilia, which are not displayed because of insurance purposes. In all, DePace’s memorabilia is worth an estimated $40 million.

Organizers of the museum want to relocate the memorabilia to the sports complex in Philadelphia, where the Philadelphia Eagles, Flyers, Phillies and 76ers play their home games.

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Tim Casey joined TriMed Media Group in 2015 as Executive Editor. For the previous four years, he worked as an editor and writer for HMP Communications, primarily focused on covering managed care issues and reporting from medical and health care conferences. He was also a staff reporter at the Sacramento Bee for more than four years covering professional, college and high school sports. He earned his undergraduate degree in psychology from the University of Notre Dame and his MBA degree from Georgetown University.

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