Antiques Dealer Hits Home Run With Rare Baseball Card

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Antiques Dealer Hits Home Run With Rare Baseball Card An antiques dealer found a baseball card worth more than $64,000 in a box of junk.

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FRESNO, Calif. (February 12, 2009)--California antiques dealer Bernice Gallego has hit a home run with her rare baseball card.

She originally listed it on eBay for only 10 bucks, but pulled it after learning it was quite a collector's item.

Now, she's sold the 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings team card for more than $64,000 dollars.

That's more than double the previous record set for an identical card.

The Cincinnati Red Stockings were the first pro team in the U.S. Only a handful of cards are known to exist.

Gallego says she found it in a box of junk.

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