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Baseball memorabilia from 1862 at auction in US
An auction house that sold a 148-year-old baseball cardis now selling even older baseball memorabilia that features a Union teamdecimated by a Civil War battle
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n auction house that sold a 148-year-old baseball cardis now selling even older baseball memorabilia that features a Union teamdecimated by a Civil War battle.
Saco River Auction Co. in Biddeford has a scorecard, four tickets and three concession passes from an 1862 game featuring the Washington Nationals and 71st Regiment of the New York Militia.
The militia won a game 42-13 in 1861 but lost the rematch 28-13 the following year after several team members died in the Battle of Bull Run in Virginia, said Troy Thibodeau from Saco River.
The auction will be held on Feb. 19.
Thibodeau said collectors are fascinated about baseball's origins.
'Everything we see in baseball today had its roots in that era. And nothing survived from that era. When something did survive, that makes it amazing,' he said. 'This one appeals to Civil War collector and early baseball collectors.'
