A Massachusetts man offered the winning sum in cash after a brief round of bidding

With any luck, he was a representative of Topps and they're going to chop the card up into 1000 indecipherable pieces to use as inserts in the 2013 Topps set.

Hmm...I'm confused as to why Julio Franco's name is included under the tags, I read the article and didn't see his name mentioned. The only way I see this article relating to Franco is that one of the Brooklyn Atlantic players pictured is Joe Start, who like Franco, played forever. Start's career spanned from 1860-1886 and he was 43 when he retired and up until 1885 was a productive player. Franco played 23 years, making his debut in 1982 and retiring at age 49 in 2007 after spending much of the decade as a somewhat productive bench player. However, while Franco had interesting but not-HOF worthy career, Start is in the Hall of Merit and would make a great Pre-Integration Era HOF pick. Perhaps this auction will bring more attention to his overlooked career.

It's a running joke on the theme "Julio Franco is old."

I was going to use Moyer, but if you're going to make a tired joke, stick with the standards.

When Doug Flutie makes the D'Backs as a knuckleball picther, we'll have a new name to use.

Surprised that it went for sub-$100k. If I was rich then something like this would be very appealing - a near one-of-a-kind item from the very early days of baseball? Surprised a couple of ex-players or something didn't go nuts for it.

The funny thing is how many idiot hipsters in Brooklyn today look just about exactly like the Brooklyn players in the photo. Ironically, of course.

I completely missed the tags first time I read this. Nicely done.

Joe Start's first baseball team was the Enterprise Club of Brooklyn in 1860, when James Buchanan was president. His last team was the 1886 Washington Nationals, who featured a 17-year-old pitcher named Tony Madigan. Madigan never played in the majors again but lived until 1954; Madigan lived in DC and died that December, so he may well have followed the '54 Senators, who had an 18-year-old kid by the name of...Harmon Killebrew.

And now you know...the REST...of the STORY...!!!

Surprised that it went for sub-$100k. If I was rich then something like this would be very appealing - a near one-of-a-kind item from the very early days of baseball? Surprised a couple of ex-players or something didn't go nuts for it.

Ditto.

Were I enormously wealthy, I don't know that I'd be all that interested in getting in on a T206 (the famous Wagner card) -- but something like this for a relative (to my wealth) song? I'd be all over it.

If I were enormously wealthy, I'd definitely be interested in getting the Wagner, but as an investment. I'd sell it in a few years. At the least I'd get my money back, and it would be fun to own one for awhile.

I think what we are learning here is that if you want the card, you are likely not very wealthy.... Im sure there is no direct correlation though....

Joe Start's first baseball team was the Enterprise Club of Brooklyn in 1860, when James Buchanan was president. His last team was the 1886 Washington Nationals, who featured a 17-year-old pitcher named Tony Madigan. Madigan never played in the majors again but lived until 1954; Madigan lived in DC and died that December, so he may well have followed the '54 Senators, who had an 18-year-old kid by the name of...Harmon Killebrew.

It's times like this that I like to remind people that John Tyler, the 9th President of the US, has a still living grandson.