Some very rare baseball cards are now up for auction after they were found in an unlikely place.
For antique collector Tom Conrad, a good find usually means an old advertising sign, oil can or soda bottles.
But when he stumbled upon a box of baseball cards from the early 1900s on Facebook Marketplace, he knew he'd found something special.
"I hate to say once in a lifetime find, but it really is right up there," Conrad said.
Inside a wooden chest, he discovered 122 baseball cards dating from 1909 to 1911 featuring legends such as Cy Young, Christy Mathewson and John McGraw.
The cards were glued to the inside of the chest, a preservation choice that may have helped keep them intact for more than a century.
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