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    • Thursday, February 07, 2013

    Yahoo/Reuters - Lovering:“Rarer than rare” 1865 baseball card sells for $92,000

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    posted on February 07, 2013 at 10:27 PM by Lassus to baseball cards, brooklyn, julio franco  |  13 comment(s)

    BOSTON (Reuters) - 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.

    The photograph mounted on a card, known as a carte de viste, is the only one of its kind known to exist, though the Library of Congress has a similar image made from a different negative, Thibodeau said before the auction.

    “It’s rarer than rare.”

    It was unclear how many of the cards ...

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    1. Neutral Milk Dotel (Dan Lee) posted on March 05, 2012 at 03:39 AM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    On the same page of the same newspaper:
    Philadelphia, March 4. -- Kevin Saunders, a fourteen-year-old boy of Springfield, Ohio, was picked up by the local police this morning and told a story of how John J. McGraw had hired him to be the mascot of the Giants this season.
    ...
    When Kevin heard that the Giants were about to start South he ran away from the Knights of Pythias Home at Springfield and started beating his way East. He got only this far to learn that the Giants are in Texas.

    The police purpose to send a telegram to McGraw to ascertain if his "mascot" shall be forwarded.
    Victory Faust: The gift that keeps on giving.
    2. Neutral Milk Dotel (Dan Lee) posted on March 05, 2012 at 03:40 AM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Pretty solid Birthday Team, as long as nobody hits the ball to third base.

    C: Del Crandall
    1B: Lu Blue
    2B: Rabbit Robinson
    3B: Paul Konerko
    SS: John Richmond
    LF: Elmer Valo
    CF: Brian L. Hunter
    RF: Sam Thompson

    SP: Jeff Tesreau
    SP: Erik Bedard
    SP: Virgil Barnes
    SP: Ryan Franklin
    SP: Doug Bird
    RP: Kent Tekulve
    RP: Mike MacDougal

    Left-handed catcher: Mike Squires
    Human Injury: Jeffrey Hammonds
    The greatest ballplayer in Belgian history: Brian Lesher
    Triple-A Rob Deer: Mike Hessman
    3. vortex of dissipation posted on March 05, 2012 at 04:15 AM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Or you could use this guy at first - 486 homers, Japanese HoF, and coolest of all, his "fighting spirit" was directly responsible for the nickname of his team - the Nippon Ham Fighters...
    4. Edmundo got dem ol' Kozma blues again mama  posted on March 05, 2012 at 09:49 AM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Reading Osugi's bio, I saw that he hit an in-season record of 3 sayonara home runs. Sayonara home run is much cooler than walk-off home run.
    5. Dag Nabbit has the talking pillow posted on March 05, 2012 at 11:24 AM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    New at THT: The Detroit-Cooperstown non-connection about why members from the '84 Tiger have had trouble getting into Cooperstown.
    6. RoyalsRetro (AG#1F) posted on March 05, 2012 at 05:09 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    7. Los Angeles El Hombre of Anaheim  posted on March 05, 2012 at 05:09 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    No spring training chatter, so I'm putting this here: Albert Pujols looks good so far.

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