OLBG reviewed news reports and auction house archives to find 10 of the most valuable baseball cards in history.Note that this list only includes cards sold at public auctions, not those sold ...

10 Most Valuable Topps Baseball Cards . Topps, a Brooklyn based company, got its start in 1938, but it didn't get into the annual baseball card business until 1952.

Among the most notable big-dollar sales was a Honus Wagner card once owned by Wayne Gretzky, which sold for $1.265 million in 2000. That specific card, from a T206 tobacco card set issued in 1909 ...

OLBG reviewed news reports and auction house archives to find 10 of the most valuable baseball cards in history. Note that this list only includes cards sold at public auctions, not those sold ...

00:12:10 The first baseball card was a team photograph of the 1865 Brooklyn Atlantics, which represented the dominant squad in New York baseball during the Civil War years.

Then commonly referred to as a carte de visite, or "visiting card," this first baseball card was handed out to fans and even to opposing teams. By the early 1900s, tobacco and candy companies were the ...