Man sues elderly mother for 'damaging' his New York baseball card collection

Christopher Trencher and his mother Carol Ivanick have not spoken for years, and now he has filed a lawsuit against her in the Manhattan Supreme Court (NYC) for the “loss” of valuable baseball cards.

Trencher alleges that the year cards 1953 of the players who are members of the “Hall of Fame” Ralph Kiner and Satchel Paige would be worth more than $25,000 dollars if their mother had not “damaged” them.

Ivanick, now from 55 years old, allegedly bought the cards from Trencher in the mid-1990s 1980, but refused to give them to him despite his repeated requests, the plaintiff affirmed in his presentation before the Manhattan Supreme Court.

Both cards are “rare and irreplaceable,” Trencher, a noted backgammon player from 55 years.

“Do you speak and no serious? Did you file a case against me in Manhattan Supreme Court?” the incredulous Ivanick, a lawyer and mother of three, said last week when New York Post asked him about the accusations. And he insisted that his son gave him the cards as a gift in the middle of the decade of 1990.

He added that he hasn’t spoken to his son or his family in a couple of years after a fight he declined to detail. “I was banished from the family a while ago. They don’t let me see my grandchildren, they don’t let me see anyone there,” she said.

“I guess that he decided this is the way to get the money for himself,” said Ivanick, who said he already wrote Kiner and Paige’s cards in his will as a legacy to Trencher’s children.

Trencher, who declined to comment, wants a judge to force his mother to hand over the cards or pay him what he says they are worth: $16,000 Dollars.

If the cards mentioned in the dispute are in good condition, they can have a value of $000,000 dollars, said Chris Ivy, director of sports at Heritage Auctions, who has not seen them. . Of the nearly 3,300 Topps Satchel Paige cards from 1953 Classified for auction, only 8 high quality noted have been found.

Paige was the first African-American to pitch in a World Series; and Kiner played for the Pittsburgh Pirates and later was a broadcaster for the New York Mets.