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Somewhere amid her collection of worn jukeboxes and slot machines, a 72-year-old California woman recently discovered an antique worth saving: a rare baseball card of the first professional team in the United States. And if it weren’t for the keen intervention of a friend, she would have sold the 1869 card of the Cincinnati Red Stockings on eBay for just $10. “I didn’t even know baseball existed that far back,” said Bernice Gallego, who owns an antique shop in Fresno, a mid-sized city in the state’s farming region. “I don’t think that I’ve ever been to a baseball game.”…Source

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