{"id":12228,"date":"2013-02-07T07:59:16","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T13:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=12228"},"modified":"2013-02-07T07:59:16","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T13:59:16","slug":"148-year-old-baseball-card-auctioned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=12228","title":{"rendered":"148 Year Old Baseball Card Auctioned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Baseballcards.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-10321\" title=\"Baseballcards\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Baseballcards-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>BIDDEFORD, Maine (AP) &#8211; A rare 148-year-old baseball card discovered at a rural Maine yard sale has been auctioned for $92,000.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The card depicting the Brooklyn Atlantics amateur baseball club drew plenty of interest Wednesday night, starting with an opening bid of $10,000 and quickly rising to $92,000, which included an 18-percent premium.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Winning bidder Jason LeBlanc of Newburyport, Mass., said he bought the card as an investment for his young son.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The card isn&#8217;t the same as a modern-day baseball card, which became common in the 1880s. Rather, it&#8217;s an original photograph from 1865 mounted on a card, showing nine players and a manager.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Library of Congress said last month it was aware of only two copies of the photo. The other is in the institution&#8217;s collection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BIDDEFORD, Maine (AP) &#8211; A rare 148-year-old baseball card discovered at a rural Maine yard sale has been auctioned for $92,000. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The card depicting the Brooklyn Atlantics amateur baseball club drew plenty of interest Wednesday night, starting with an opening bid of $10,000 and quickly rising to $92,000, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12229,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12228\/revisions\/12229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}