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Vintage Breaks is an online baseball card company that allows collectors to buy "spots" in a pack of unopened vintage cards. The owner of the first spot gets the first card and so on until all the cards are distributed to the buyers. Magic happened during the opening of a 1955 Bowman cello pack, at the National Sports Collector's Convention, as the 19th spot revealed was a PSA 9 grade Mickey Mantle baseball card. A PSA grade 10 card would be deemed absolutely perfect. The new owner says that he has received offers of $50,000 already. The excitement shown makes me reminisce to when I was opening cards as a kid. The magic starts at the 26:29 mark, but warning it is loud.
Some 375 miles east of Cleveland, Chris Rothe was finishing up his job as a third-generation bookbinder in Maryland when he decided to check the archived videos of the pack openings from earlier in the day. Rothe, who randomly got the 19th card that was to be opened in the pack, discovered that he was the proud new owner of the Mantle card. "My friend told me my face went pale white when I saw it," Rothe said. "I was weak in the knees."
Some 375 miles east of Cleveland, Chris Rothe was finishing up his job as a third-generation bookbinder in Maryland when he decided to check the archived videos of the pack openings from earlier in the day. Rothe, who randomly got the 19th card that was to be opened in the pack, discovered that he was the proud new owner of the Mantle card. "My friend told me my face went pale white when I saw it," Rothe said. "I was weak in the knees."
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