Million Dollar Boston Red Stockings Baseball Archive | Antiques Roadshow

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"Yes, I'm keeping it in the family."

"Insure it for one million dollars."

Lists collection on ebay within 5 minutes.

👍︎︎ 224 👤︎︎ u/No-Mas-Pantalones 📅︎︎ Jan 06 2015 🗫︎ replies

That archive literally made the appraiser's nipples hard.

👍︎︎ 94 👤︎︎ u/mothertruck 📅︎︎ Jan 07 2015 🗫︎ replies

I bet Spalding would pay good money for an original baseball card of their founder.

👍︎︎ 85 👤︎︎ u/[deleted] 📅︎︎ Jan 06 2015 🗫︎ replies

That's what I like about this show.

People get a million and it's 'holy smokes.'

Win $20 k on 'Family Feud' and lose their minds.

👍︎︎ 113 👤︎︎ u/[deleted] 📅︎︎ Jan 06 2015 🗫︎ replies

You know people can talk shit all they want about antique roadshow. I love this shit

👍︎︎ 27 👤︎︎ u/recoverybelow 📅︎︎ Jan 07 2015 🗫︎ replies

The appraiser even got choked up. Now where's my bday money grandma.

👍︎︎ 31 👤︎︎ u/reebokpumps 📅︎︎ Jan 06 2015 🗫︎ replies

What a stupid title.

👍︎︎ 8 👤︎︎ u/trolling_thunder 📅︎︎ Jan 07 2015 🗫︎ replies
👍︎︎ 32 👤︎︎ u/dillywin 📅︎︎ Jan 07 2015 🗫︎ replies

My Reds finally did something! It only took them -144 years!

👍︎︎ 13 👤︎︎ u/tecopad 📅︎︎ Jan 07 2015 🗫︎ replies
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GUEST: Well, back in 1871, my great-great-grandmother had a boardinghouse in Boston, and she housed the Boston baseball team. Most of them had come from the Cincinnati Red Stockings and were among the first to be paid to play baseball. APPRAISER: Do you know what they were paid in those days, the first professional teams? GUEST: Well, I know the Cincinnati Reds, the first... $9,300 I read was the entire payroll for the baseball team at that time. APPRAISER: Now, all these cards went to your great-grandfather? That's how he got them and they got handed down to you? GUEST: Yeah, apparently he collected them, and he unfortunately cut them down to fit this little album, so they're all slightly askew. And the thing that's special, in addition to the cards, is this letter, and they all wrote a little sentence and signed it. APPRAISER: They must have really loved her. I'm sure she did the cooking, the cleaning for them. Because if you read some of these lines here: "I am just going upstairs to supper and feel awful hungry, "but do not expect much, poor meals here, too hungry to say anymore, Harry Wright." Here we have, "Would that we were home again, "my sentiments have been expressed "in the above paragraphs; big meals. A.G. Spalding." Well, what you have here are some of the earliest known 1871 photographic baseball cards. Harry Wright here and his brother George Wright is here. You know, these were the original Wright brothers. Also Albert Spalding. Now, Spalding is a very familiar name, isn't it? GUEST: Right. APPRAISER: He was the first well-known player to use a fielding glove. And what did he build from that? A sporting goods empire. We have never seen these cards before. To have this letter with Harry Wright and Spalding on it is tremendous. To have anything with their signatures on it is phenomenal because again, you're talking about the precursor to the National and American leagues. So, that all said, you're going to keep them in the family, right? GUEST: I want to, yes. APPRAISER: Okay, now I'm going to value this as an archive, everything here. If you're going to insure it, I would insure it for at least $1 million. GUEST: Are you serious?! Oh, my. (chuckles) Holy smokes. APPRAISER: (choking up): It is the greatest archive I have ever had at the ROADSHOW. GUEST: Really? Holy smokes. Guess I better put it in a bank vault. APPRAISER: I have to say, you have hit a grand slam today.
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Keywords: Baseball (Interest), Antiques Roadshow (TV Program), Atlanta Braves (Professional Sports Team), National Baseball Hall Of Fame And Museum (Hall Of Fame), Public Broadcasting Service (TV Network), pbs, 1871 Boston Red Stockings Season, Antique (Literature Subject), History, watch, new, million dollars, one million dollars, boston, boston sports, boston red stockings
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Length: 2min 50sec (170 seconds)
Published: Mon Jan 05 2015
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