Massachusetts man helps uncover baseball card estimated to be worth millions of dollars
A Massachusetts man helped uncover a rare baseball card at a yard sale that is estimated to be worth millions of dollars.
Jeff Gross of Newburyport, Massachusetts, has been collecting baseball cards for decades, but he never thought that a yard sale at his in-laws' house in Danvers would result in finding a card potentially worth millions.
"This is by far the biggest thing that's ever and will ever happen to me," Gross said.
"A nice guy rides by on his bicycle. He introduced himself, and I overhear him talking to my wife and said something about baseball cards, and I said 'Oh what's going on over here?'"
The man explained to Gross that he had some old cards passed down from his father and Gross agreed to go through the cards with him.
"The card he had at the time that stood out to me was Joe Jackson from the 1919 Black Sox," Gross said. "The experts said to me, 'If that card is authenticated, your friend has a card that has been rumored to exist."
However, a card worth $50,000 was just the start, as just a few days later the Danvers man found more cards.
"I still have the text. He said something like, 'The better of the two Babe Ruth Cards,'" Gross said.
The Danvers man then revealed to Gross that he had a never-before-seen 1916 Babe Ruth Rookie Card while on the Red Sox.
Now, a few months later, it will be auctioned by Robert Edward Auction House with a minimum bid of $150,000 but expected to go for way more.
"The owner of the card wants to stay anonymous," Gross said. "Someone said this morning, 'Does he know he hit the lottery?' Yeah, he does now."
