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.
"Yes, I'm keeping it in the family."
"Insure it for one million dollars."
Lists collection on ebay within 5 minutes.
That archive literally made the appraiser's nipples hard.
I bet Spalding would pay good money for an original baseball card of their founder.
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.
You know people can talk shit all they want about antique roadshow. I love this shit
The appraiser even got choked up. Now where's my bday money grandma.
What a stupid title.
This one never gets old
My Reds finally did something! It only took them -144 years!