Rare 1865 baseball card sells for $92,000

The Brooklyn Atlantics were known as the first champions of baseball. They team was a founding club of the National Association of Baseball Players, a forerunner of today's

National League. The photograph mounted on a card, known as a carte de viste, is the only one of its kind known to exist, though the Library of Congress has a similar image made from a different negative. The baseball cards were considered one of the first baseball cards ever. It was unclear how many of the cards like the one of the     Brooklyn Atlantics team were produced. The ball club had them printed and handed them out to fans and players, even those from opposing teams, because the Atlantics were so good at the time. It was impossible to predict what kind of price the card would fetch because of its rarity, but the winning bid would fall somewhere between $50,000 and $500,000. The most expensive baseball card ever is a 1909 Honus Wagner card, which sold for $2.8 million in 2007.