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1915 Cracker Jack Baseball Cards Worth $750K For Sale

May 30, 2019 / 10:37 AM CDT / CBS Texas

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DALLAS, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) - "Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jacks" is the famous line from 'Take Me Out To The Ball Game.'

Those lyrics forever linked baseball and the treat with a prize in every box. The prize in 1915 was a baseball card.

Cracker Jack cards were largely a victim of circumstance, challenged by an array of factors limiting healthy survival, from the sticky contents of its original packaging to the century of time's assault. (credit: CBS 11 News)

Photojournalist Mike Kinney took us to Heritage Auctions in Dallas where a set of those decade old cards are on the auction block this week.

The complete 176 card set of 1915 Cracker Jack baseball cards is valued at $750,000. It includes three cards valued at $100,000 -- The Shoeless Joe Jackson, Ty Cobb, and Christy Mathewson cards.

Go ahead and bid if you want to own a piece of history.