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Posted By: <b>Doug</b><p><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/blog/big_league_stew/post/Woman-finds-139-year-old-baseball-card-in-box-of?urn=mlb,132871" target="_new" rel="nofollow">http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/blog/big_league_stew/post/Woman-finds-139-year-old-baseball-card-in-box-of?urn=mlb,132871</a><br><br>If she really had a $10 BIN on it I can't imagine that someone didn't take a shot at it. (The story is inconsistent though. That story says it started at $10, but the link at the beginning of the paragraph links to another story from deadspin.com saying that it had a $10 BIN)

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Posted By: <b>rand</b><p>i dont think it was a BIN, the auction started at $10. geesh maybe one day something will fall in my lap. the 1914 jackson cracker jack was found the same way.. graded an sgc 80 and sold for $51k

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Posted By: <b>Dan</b><p>Yep, saw it and laughed to tears when I read it. The good old days of seeing these types of finds are near an end.

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Posted By: <b>anthony</b><p>which one of you &quot;big guys&quot; talked her into ending the auction early?

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Posted By: <b>Alan</b><p>How many auction house owners are on their way to her house as we speak ?

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Posted By: <b>Jodi Birkholm</b><p>Good for her. She looks like a nice lady. I'm always happy when such discoveries are made by decent, regular folks.

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Posted By: <b>brian p</b><p>Checking out the moronic comments posted about this article on the Yahoo Sports site makes one thankful for Net54 and Leon's stewardship.<br><br><br><br>Brian

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Posted By: <b>Jodi Birkholm</b><p>Brian,<br><br>I was thinking the exact same thing, but opted not to post about it. How terrible. She looks like somebody's sweet grandmother.

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Posted By: <b>Alan U</b><p>Someone should really advise her to send it to REA or another auction house rather than list on ebay.

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Posted By: <b>Marty Ogelvie</b><p>Definately a nice story but makes me a feel a bit guilty from complaining to my wife about THROWING CRAP out! She is a pack rat also and often goes behind me to pull stuff out of the garbage after I have put it there.

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Posted By: <b>Doug</b><p>She has to be pretty lucky, it says at the bottom that she won $250,000 on a slot machine too. I'm lucky if I win $5!

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Posted By: <b>Jim VB</b><p>Bobby B actually posted on this yesterday (see thread titled: Peck &amp; Snyder.)