LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) – One man’s love for thrifting and finding treasures led him to a used book with a big surprise inside.
Christopher Kidney has been thrifting for two and a half years. He and his family say they thrift together all the time.
Kidney began to lose hope that he would find a rare item, but on Jan. 29, he stepped into a Goodwill in Morehead and came across the book “The Pittsburgh Pirates.”
Inside that book, he found a signature from a Pirates icon.
“I open it up and it says ‘Best wishes Stan Rojek, Honus Wagner,’” Kidney recalled. “I mean, when every part in me was in shock. It was hard to breathe. I was like ‘Are you serious? Is this really what I found?’ It was scary, but exciting.”
Wagner played on the Pirates from 1900 to 1917. Before that, he spent three years with the Louisville Colonels. Nicknamed “The Flying Dutchman”, Wagner is considered one of the greatest shortstops of all time and his T206 baseball card is one of the rarest, most expensive and most sought-after in the hobby.
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