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> Ex-US Archives employee pleads to stealing Babe Ruth and other recordings....... 

I don't understand why the National Archive would even have this in their collection.  They should sell it to the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame, put some money in the U.S. Treasury and leave Sports memorabilia to others.

The fact that employees are stealing it shows it has street value but I see no value to the National Archives to hold this type of material. Since no one knows it is there, no one would ever look for it.  The purpose of the National Archives is to store valued government records.  Babe Ruth quail hunting seems to be outside their scope.

More citizens would see it if it was in the MLB, and; Jim Thorpe should be in the NFL Hall of Fame and so on.  The cost to hold these items grows each year when effective management could arrange to have them on display somewhere, reduce costs to the citizens and turn a profit rather than lose control of items such that the staff are the only ones turning a profit.

Archival science has to do with storing things most effectively and safely and distribution of artifacts to appropriate venues would be the most efficient manner.

Hugh Smith
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