'Rarer than rare' 1865 baseball card sells for $92,000

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'Rarer than rare' 1865 baseball card sells for $92,000

'Rarer than rare' 1865 baseball card sells for $92,000

02-06-2013 09:01 PM

A rare 1865 photograph of the Brooklyn Atlantics baseball team, discovered at a Maine yard sale and considered one of the first baseball cards ever, sold for $92,000 at an auction on Wednesday. A Massachusetts man offered the winning sum in cash after a brief round of bidding at Saco River Auction Co., said Troy Thibodeau, manager and auctioneer at the company in Biddeford, Maine. Thibodeau declined to name the buyer. ...

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