February 12, 2009
strike that
Bernice Gallego found a baseball card of the Red Stocking B.B. Club of Cincinnati, the first professional baseball team in America, and tried to sell it on eBay. Once she realized what she had, she halted the auction and tried again. The card just sold for $64,073.
The sale ended a whirlwind month for Gallego, who attracted an avalanche of attention on the front page of Yahoo!, the New York Times and other outlets across the country. Her popularity soared even further in late January, when she appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and revealed that this wasn’t her first instance of blind luck. She once won $250,000 from a slot machine in Nevada.
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