By Associated Press PUBLISHED: 20:52 EST, 9 January 2013 | UPDATED: 20:52 EST, 9 January 2013 Six-figure bids are expected when an auction house sells a rare 148-year-old baseball card that was discovered at a yard sale in rural Maine, the auction house manager said today. A man found the card by chance in a photo album he bought while antique hunting in the small town of Baileyville, Maine, said Troy Thibodeau of Saco River Auction Co. in Biddeford. It's not the same as a modern baseball card, which became commonplace beginning in the 1880s. Instead, it's an original photograph from 1865 of the Brooklyn Atlantics amateur baseball club mounted on a card. The card shows nine players gathered around their manager.
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Card found by chance by antique hunter in old photo album in  Baileyville, New York
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