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Oldest known base ball card sells for $92,000

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Gregory Rec/Staff Photographer:
This 1865 card of the Brooklyn Atlantics was found by a picker in Baileyville and will be auctioned off at the Saco River Auction Company on February 6. There are only two of the cards known to exist and the other is in the Library of Congress.

The Brooklyn Atlantics card was found late last year by an antiques picker in Baileyville, a town of about 1,700 residents in Washington County, 300 miles from LeBlanc’s home in Newburyport, Mass.

Man buys $92,000 baseball card for sick son – Gillian Graham/Portland Press Herald (6 Feb 2013)

Baseball Pioneer Doc Adams’ Knickerbocker Scroll Missing from Yale University Library

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A facsimilie of the “Nestor of Ball Players” document presented to Daniel Lucius “Doc” Adams by the Knickerbocker Base Ball Club, the original of which was lost after it was donated to Yale University i the 1950s.

According to Dom Amore, of the Hartford Courant, the Adams family says the scroll was donated to Yale in the 1950s, however, he also said officials at Yale deny that they ever received the Adams resolution on the 1863 scroll. Amore told us, “Family thinks Yale lost it.”

Doc Adams’ great granddaughter, Marjorie Adams, has been trying to get Yale to locate the scroll for years . “My grandfather donated the scroll to Yale sometime in the 1950s and much later, sometime in the 1960s or 1970s, my father wanted to have the scroll professionally photographed. But Yale could not locate it. We’ve been searching for it ever since.”

Read more: Baseball Pioneer Doc Adams’ Knickerbocker Scroll Missing from Yale University Library – Peter J. Nash/Hauls of Shame (16 Sep 2011)

Doc Adams Finally Recognized As A Founder Of Baseball

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If Doc Adams was looking down on Hartford Saturday, he was probably blushing. He was that type.

To hear his accomplishments recited, his virtues extolled and see the pride in the faces of his great, great-great and great-great-great grandchildren, the old Doc might well have been embarrassed by it all…

Read more: Doc Adams Finally Recognized As A Founder Of Baseball – Dom Amore/Hartford Courant (10 Sep 2011)

1859 Brooklyn Atlantics Presentation Baseball

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Further research by appraiser Jasmani Francis revealed that the numbers on this 19th-century baseball commemorate the final score of the game between the Brooklyn Atlantics and the Baltimore Pastime on June 23, 1859.

At the Miami Beach ROADSHOW in 2010, a guest named James brought in an extremely old, handmade baseball that sports memorabilia expert Jasmani Francis appraised for the whopping sum of $20,000 to $30,000…

1859 Brooklyn Atlantics Presentation Baseball – Luke Crafton/PBS Roadshow (3 Jan 2011)

Base Ball Club opens season Saturday at Fort Trumbull

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“Base Ball Club opens season Saturday at Fort Trumbull” – The Day

“Vintage baseball begins Saturday at Fort Trumbull State Park with a season opener between New London’s Thames Base BallClub and the Blues of Bristol, R.I.

The first of the two games, which are played according to the game’s 1861 rules, is scheduled for 11 a.m., with the second contest planned for 1:30 p.m. Admission is free to the public.

The Thames Club has scheduled 10 home games, which are split into five double-headers: Sunday, July 6 (Waterbury Connors); Saturday, July 26 (Columbia BBC); Saturday, Aug. 23 (Sandy Hooks of Newtown); and Sunday, Sept. 28 (Bridgeport Orators).”