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Six-figure bids are expected when a rare 148-year-old baseball card discovered at a rural Maine yard sale is auctioned. Saco River Auction Co. in Biddeford is holding an auction Wednesday evening that includes a card depicting the Brooklyn Atlantics amateur baseball club. The card isn't the same as a modern-day baseball card, which became common in the 1880s. Rather, it's an original photograph from 1865 mounted on a card, showing nine players and a manager.

While cleaning out the attic of their late grandfather’s house, Karl Kissner and Karla Hench unknowingly made the dream of baseball card collectors everywhere come to life.