well you can see what happened once you start its like a drug you cant stop cypres obsession goes beyond the dodgers his collection also includes such iconic items as ruths uniform from 1934 his last season with the yankees lou gehrigs warmup jacket on the day he ended his consecutive games streak in 1939 and joe dimaggios recordbreaking ball from his legendary 56game hitting streak theres also a cornice stone from the original yankee stadium a t206 honus wagner card aka the holy grail of trading cards and barry bonds recordtying 755th home run ball the collection has grown to encompass football basketball hockey biking and tennis items that are housed in 30 galleries spread out across the warehouse cypres is in the process of assembling a los angeles rams collection from the teams nearly 50year history in the city in case the franchise moves back from st louis there are various levels of collectors cypres said im obviously on the far nutty side of it all im completely nuts people ask me why i do it and i dont know why all i know is that i get a great sense of joy in collecting its like a holiday all year round for me i get presents all year round every day federal express comes with another goodie ive bought cypres plans to open his museum to the public in february hes made it available occasionally for charity functions but so far its been a private collection other than a sixmonth public stretch in 2008 that didnt go well we had it open six days a week which economically doesnt make any sense with security and employees and i didnt advertise so the people who came loved it but nobody knew about it he said i didnt understand how a museum worked but subsequently my wife and i were on the board at moca museum of contemporary art and ive worked with the ronald reagan library to display some of my collection if im going to do it i have to do it now i dont have that much time left you never know when youre going to go but statistically im heading in that direction im in my early 70s now and all collectors have a fundamental problem you cant take it with you the coffin would be too big and my wife isnt paying for it while cypres cant take his collection with him there is one part of it he will still have control of after hes gone im going to put the dodger collection in a trust he said the dodger collection cannot be replaced there are no duplicates of what i have gloves balls and bats can be replaced but the history of a franchise which took me 25 years to assemble thats impossible to replace thats a treasure and i dont want my kids to blow the treasure its my love and even after death im going to be looking down saying