In a story that first appeared in the Fresno Bee last week, 72-year-old Bernice Gallego found a rare 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings card, put it on eBay, got plenty of inquiries but no bids and canceled the auction when she found out it was probably worth a lot more than the $10 she initially was asking for it.
The Enquirer's John Erardi says in his story about Gallego and the card that local collector Steve Wolter says the card isn't worth the $100,000 that was speculated upon in news outlets, but it could be worth as much as $20,000. Wolter's quote:
Those cards (of that 1869 team) are considered the first baseball cards, and although they aren't extremely rare - there might be only 15-20 of them in existence - they're still pretty hard to find," Wolter said. Depending on the condition of the Fresno card, it could be worth from $4,000-$5,000 to $15,000-$20,000.
Wow. I first read about it on Yahoo! Sports yesterday and figured it's the time of story that would interest even non-baseball fans and non-card collectors.
And for those who do or did collect baseball cards, this story from Yahoo! Sports may interest you as well.
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Little did those Red Stockings know that they would be initiating what would be more than 140 years of failure.
Also, not a huge baseball card nut - but how is it that "15-20" in existence is not 'extremely rare'? That sounds pretty rare to me.
Yeah, I guess "extremely rare" means 1-2??
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