1,600 vintage baseball cards found hidden during Idaho home renovation
Global News
To access the baseball cards hidden in her Idaho home, Melissa Brodt had to first rip the outdoor shingles off the bedroom wall.
When Melissa Brodt bought a home to restore late last year there was one room she knew had to be renovated almost immediately; a bedroom with the walls tiled in painted, dark green, outdoor asphalt shingles.
Such a strange choice for a wall, she thought, and quickly got to work ripping off the roofing material.
What she found underneath, though, was just as surprising as the shingles.
Rows and rows of baseball cards were hidden in the Boise, Idaho home, glued to the wall with a strong adhesive.
Brodt told CNN that she discovered about 1,600 cards, most of them from the 70s and 80s.
“We’re not really baseball fans so I didn’t really know what I was looking at, but lots of friends said, ‘Oh, I know that guy,'” she said.
Brodt, a realtor, shared photos and video of the discovery to her Facebook page, and the visual is quite astonishing. At one point she peels back a big swath of shingles to reveal what looks like wallpaper.
“For three weeks I’d been fretting about what might be under those shingles,” she told KTVB.com.
