A group of childhood friends pulled off the most audacious string of sports-memorabilia heists in history, Ariel Sabar wrote in January. Then they did something really crazy:

After 3 days of deliberation in the sports-memorabilia heist case, a jury tonight found 3 of the defendants who went to trial guilty: Joseph Atsus, Damien Boland & Nicholas Dombek. The fourth, Al Atsus, was acquitted. Background in my Feb. story @theatlantic.com. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

The best story you will ever read about the world's greatest sports memorabilia thief and the 10 Yogi Berra World Series rings he melted down for gold. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

"Berra’s 16 rings and two MVP plaques—valued at $1.5 million intact—had grossed Trotta’s crew just $10,300 after melting." @arielsabar.bsky.social @theatlantic.com https://longreads.com/2025/01/14/the-childhood-friends-behind-the-most-audacious-sports-memorabilia-heists-in-american-history/

The masterful @arielsabar.bsky.social has done it again, finding incredibly rich and fascinating details about a string of incredibly stupid and unprofitable thefts of sports memorabilia for the sake of their precious metal content: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...