A Man Bought an Old Photo Album for Under $100. Inside Was the Oldest Known Baseball Card
A man antiquing in Baileyville, Maine, bought a photo album alongside old Coca-Cola bottles and a couple of oak chairs for under $100 at a yard sale. Inside was an 1865 photograph of the Brooklyn Atlantics mounted on a card, which the Library of Congress has called the first dated baseball card, later selling at […]
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A man antiquing in Baileyville, Maine, bought a photo album alongside old Coca-Cola bottles and a couple of oak chairs for under $100 at a yard sale. Inside was an 1865 photograph of the Brooklyn Atlantics mounted on a card, which the Library of Congress has called the first dated baseball card, later selling at […]
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