[Cecil Terwilliger]

This is pretty neat.

Chance encounter led to the discovery of a never-before-seen Babe Ruth rookie card that could go for millions at auction

“The guy mentioned that he had some old baseball cards that were passed down from his dad, and my antenna went up,” said Gross, who offered to help the man figure out what they might be worth. Soon, the man — who is choosing to remain anonymous because of what’s coming next — started cataloging the cards and sending Gross spreadsheets containing some exciting names like Cy Young, Christy Mathewson, Jim Thorpe, and “Shoeless” Joe Jackson.

Gross informed him he had some valuable cards, and they were planning to meet and go over them when the man sent Gross a casual text saying he had discovered some more cards in a box. He then wrote five words that have since sent the baseball memorabilia world into a frenzy: “Just found a Babe Ruth.”

For it was not just any Babe Ruth. The Danvers man had a 1916 rookie card for a young Red Sox pitcher who would become — after a disastrous sale, for the Sox at least, to the New York Yankees — the most famous player in baseball history. And this particular card, which was issued as part of a promotion by the Morehouse Baking Company in Lawrence, is so rare that Gross had to enlist several experts to figure out what it might be worth, because no one had ever seen one before, and it had certainly never come up for auction.

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